Given the massive shortfalls in their State budget, you’d think that CA would be happy to have a new business that would provide for more jobs, right? After all, new businesses and employees all pay taxes that can help out their self-made fiscal crisis.
Naw! From NRO:
California, The Nanny State, continues to trail-blaze America’s Green future with carbon caps, fuel-economy laws, even a South L.A. ban on new fast-food restaurants (to force residents to lead a healthier lifestyle). Now comes Attorney General Jerry Brown’s threat this week to block a proposed water-bottling plant in Northern California unless its effects on global warming are evaluated.
Well, I can tell you without an expensive survey (which is probably more to the point – not so much pro-environment but anti-business which, after all is said and done, the same thing).
According to AP’s report, Brown said the plant “failed to include an examination of whether the operation will contribute to global warming through the production of plastic bottles, the operation’s electrical demands and the diesel soot and greenhouse gas emissions produced by trucks traveling to and from the plant.”
If you are asking the question, I can give you the answer from 3,500 miles away – it will have an impact, one that you will not approve of no matter how much money the company spends. Making things costs energy and uses other materials. The people who would be employed there would exude CO2 as a matter of living (and a fair amount of methane from time to impolite time too!). Moving that product will add to emission as its consumers are probably not going to travel there to personally pick up such water containing bottles.
Of course, AG Moonbeam’s criteria would kill all new manufacturing business in the state, but I suppose we should be used to such lunacy by now.
Thank God that they haven’t gotten to the worst question with regards of eliminating CO2 emissions – "are you breathing"?
In time, they will. CA leads the country in this kind of nuttiness. They have yet to learn that decisions have consequences and so do idiotic ideologies (like carbon emission is the worst sin in the world).
