California Ups Renewable Energy Mandate to 33% by 2020
Posted by on Nov 19, 2008 in Environment |
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Schwarzenegger’s leadership on energy and climate continues to astonish me.
and so does his failure with the state’s economy and taking it out on CA state workers.
Yes because the state’s problems are his fault, and not the millions of people that the country loves having here illegally or any of the situation that Davis left us with. Clearly it’s all his fault.We have issues yes, but we have to fix the environment at the same time. Good on him.
Are you *seriously* still blaming all the issues we have in California on Gray Davis? For *****’s sake, get a life.
i think arnold’s happy as long as he can be aggressive with something.
JOHN KIMBLE
Go Governator!
Gotta love Arnold.
He is ‘terminating’ our dependence on fossil fuels.
bury me
Lolz
Carbon dollars are next, the enviro-freaks are determined to control the U.S. currency.
I for one welcome our solarpanel overlords
Too late and the tech is already here.
A real world example of Eco-fascism.
It’s sad that Gov. Schwarzenegger will never run for President.
It’s only because he can’t Constitutionally.
I think thats what he was shooting for buddy
Well, he said “will never”, not “can’t ever”. Some ambiguity there.
Please tell me you’re being sarcastic..?.
How about instead of mandating energy companies to spend money on renewable tech. and passing the bill to customers, we actually give the renewables directly to the people.
DOOOO EEEEETTTT NAO!!!!!!!!! – the governator has spoken.
GET TO DA CHAPAAA!!!
Thats one of the best moves the state can do with continual rise in cost period. Im happy to be a Californian. Now if only solar panels were more affordable for larger homes.
Whether one agrees or disagrees whether it’s good policy to pay for renewables, this will cost Californians more than they pay now…I’m curious why is this “one of the best moves the state can do with continual rise in cost period”?
I have no idea why we keep approving more and more things that are costing more and more money when we are nearly bankrupt as a state.Then they complain when Arnold wants to raise sales taxes over 10%.
California’s electricity costs are already 32% higher than the national average, I suppose Arnold wants to move the State from the 10th most expensive electricity to the most expensive, and that will take some doing because Alaska and Hawaii both have very high costs due to their locations. neo.ne.gov/statshtml/115.htm
“to meet the 33 percent target and spread implementation costs across all ratepayers”
Thank you for your excellent bipartisan leadership, Mr. Schwarzenegger. When you first got elected I was pissed off, but eh, I shouldn’t have been so assumptive based on your past
I will certainly be voting to reelect him on next election.
Actually, he’s in his 2nd term already. It ends in 2011.
This is all just so much BS. Just like at the federal level, every California legislative session is independent of the previous sessions. So any plans you make that last more than one fiscal year can be completely ignored by the legislatures after you. That’s why you always see these kinds of plans “backloading” the pain to later legislatures.Because the current legislature knows the pain part will never happen.
I don’t know exactly when it happened, but at some point, I became able to say “Governor Schwarzenegger” without any trace of sarcasm or disbelief. And still can now. He’s actually rather impressive.
Whatever California saves with their stupid green initiatives they will make up for with world class fires every year.
Of trees which have absorbed the same amount of greenhouse gases they give out, rather than unlocking it from oil
Ya know, I could have sworn California’s voters just said they didn’t really want this: ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_P …
Electricity costs in California are already 32% higher than the national average. California pays an average of 14.07 cents per kw/hr, the 10th most expensive in the country. Is it any wonder why? neo.ne.gov/statshtml/115.htm
You’re assuming that there’s something inherently right about cheap energy. Oil has spoilt us. Cheap, high density is not available naturally and it’s not sustainable. Paying more for energy is something everyone will have to get used to sooner or later.
Prop 7 and Prop 10 didn’t pass because they were fundamentally wrong. That and T. Boone Pickens funded both. It’s hard to say you want to be using renewable energy when the guy promoting both made his billions on oil drilling.