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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on May 22, 2008, 11:56:41 AM
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First In Nation 'Pollution Fee' Coming To SF
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors on Wednesday approved new rules to charge businesses a fee for the pollution they emit.
The group's board of directors voted 15-1 on unprecedented new rules that will impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
The agency, which regulates air pollution in the nine-county Bay Area, will be the first in the country to charge companies fees based on their greenhouse gas emissions, experts say. The new rules will take effect July 1.
The modest fee -- 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide -- probably won't be enough to force companies to reduce their emissions, but backers say it sets an important precedent in combating climate change and could serve as a model for regional air districts nationwide.
The fee will not be imposed on vehicles, district spokeswoman Lisa Fasano said.
"It doesn't solve global warming, but it gets us thinking in the right terms," said Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley. "It's not enough of a cost to change behavior, but it tells us where things are headed. You have to think not just in financial terms, but in carbon terms."
MORE (http://www.nbc11.com/news/16349069/detail.html)
IOW, it doesn't do squat, but we all feel better now...and as a bonus, we've made it harder to do business in "Teh Peoples Republik of SanFransicko".
Left-coast Idiots. :whatever:
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First In Nation 'Pollution Fee' Coming To SF
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors on Wednesday approved new rules to charge businesses a fee for the pollution they emit.
The group's board of directors voted 15-1 on unprecedented new rules that will impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
The agency, which regulates air pollution in the nine-county Bay Area, will be the first in the country to charge companies fees based on their greenhouse gas emissions, experts say. The new rules will take effect July 1.
The modest fee -- 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide -- probably won't be enough to force companies to reduce their emissions, but backers say it sets an important precedent in combating climate change and could serve as a model for regional air districts nationwide.
The fee will not be imposed on vehicles, district spokeswoman Lisa Fasano said.
"It doesn't solve global warming, but it gets us thinking in the right terms," said Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley. "It's not enough of a cost to change behavior, but it tells us where things are headed. You have to think not just in financial terms, but in carbon terms."
MORE (http://www.nbc11.com/news/16349069/detail.html)
IOW, it doesn't do squat, but we all feel better now...and as a bonus, we've made it harder to do business in "Teh Peoples Republik of SanFransicko".
Left-coast Idiots. :whatever:
And when these businesses leave the state, causing massive unemployment, it will be because of the horrid * economy.
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it's just a matter of time, they will be measuring and taxing farts in SF.
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Stupid idea. San Fransicko is at it again. No wonder why people are moving out of that dump.
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it's just a matter of time, they will be measuring and taxing farts in SF.
I know a few folks who would be good government inspectors for that. :-)
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This is how it happens. Businesses will eventually relocate to places like, oh, I don't know, THE SOUTH, and they'll bitch about it being some right-wing conspiracy and how corporations are evil and all that bullshit. They'll completely, or maybe conveniently, forget that it was them that drove them out of town to begin with. There's one thing the morons apparently can't grasp, that is, companies aren't FORCED to stay in your socialistic hellhole.