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On Sep 19, 9:09 am, Roger Coppock <r...@a...com> wrote:
> Global warming law will boost California economy, study finds
> By Daniel B. Wood| Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor/
> September 18, 2008 edition
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> Los Angeles
> When California made global headlines two years ago for a landmark law
> requiring a 25 percent cut in industrial greenhouse gases by 2020,
> some critics said the environmental advantages would be symbolic and
> net job losses significant.
California's Dirty Little Secrets
July 13, 2008
Glenn Milne meant this to sound hopeful !!!!!!
The great thing about visiting California is that it gives you a sense of
where Australia is probably headed. In the context of the climate change
debate, this assertion stands, only more so. Remember, California Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger is something of an environmental pin-up boy for Rudd.
Max Schulz explains why it's actually a threat:
A dirty secret about California's energy economy is that it imports lots of
energy from neighboring states to make up for the shortfall caused by having
too few power plants. Up to 20 percent of the state's power comes from
coal-burning plants in Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, and Montana, and
another significant portion comes from large-scale hydropower in Oregon,
Washington State, and the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas.
Another secret: California's proud claim to have kept per-capita energy
consumption flat while growing its economy is less impressive than it seems.
The state has some of the highest energy prices in the country-nearly twice
the national average, a 2002 Milken Institute study found-largely because of
regulations and government mandates to use expensive renewable sources of
power.
As a result, heavy manufacturing and other energy-intensive industries have
been fleeing the Golden State in droves for lower-cost locales. Twenty years
ago or so, you could count eight automobile factories in California; today,
there's just one, and it's the same story with other industries, from
chemicals to aerospace.
Yet Californians still enjoy the fruits of those manufacturing
industries-driving cars built in the Midwest and the South, importing
chemicals and resins and paints and plastics produced elsewhere, and flying
on jumbo jets manufactured in places like Everett, Washington.
California can pretend to have controlled energy consumption, but it has
just displaced it.
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.
php/heraldsun/comments/california_dreaming_its_potem
kin_greens/
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
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