From The Sacramento Bee:
Who’s really lying on climate change? Hint: Their first names are Jerry and Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger really should be careful about calling people liars. Especially when he’s trying to pass off faith as scientific fact.
Maybe you saw the former governor and erstwhile action star berating conservatives the other day for refusing to accept his view that the answer to climate change is the heavy hand of government.
“Don’t those conservative Republicans get the message?” he asked. “And can’t they just think about it for a second and say, ‘Maybe we should stop lying to the people.’ Stop lying to the people. Stop it.”
The two of them were celebrating the signing of a bill that would extend cap-and-trade to 2030. California already has the highest gasoline taxes, high energy prices, a crumbling infrastructure. Of course this is pure "do as I say not as I do" as the big businesses (and Democratic contributors) are exempted from this:
California’s cap-and-trade program is full of carve-outs for industry. That’s the only way it can work without manufacturers abandoning the state wholesale and electricity and fuel prices climbing even higher than they are already.
And they’re quite high. California’s gasoline and electricity prices are the highest in the western United States. We had the highest gasoline taxes at around 54 cents a gallon, and they’re about to go up again in November between 12 cents and 19 cents per gallon, depending on the type of fuel. Cap-and-trade mandates will likely add another 63 cents a gallon by 2021, according to Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor. Low-income Californians will be hardest hit. The state’s answer seems to be, “Let them eat solar.”
One of my favorite metrics is the U-Haul measurement - here are two quotes from just a few minutes ago. First is for a 10' box truck from San Francisco to Dallas, Texas. The second is from Dallas to San Francisco - notice any difference?
What you are seeing is the volume of people leaving from San Francisco and moving to Dallas, Texas. UHaul has to incentivize the Dallas to SF trip otherwise they would have to pay their own staff to move the trucks back to SF. The $731 is probably just the cost of operation for the vehicle - depreciation, wear and tear and insurance. This is a 277.8% difference between the two.
