Last month, the state Department of Ecology (DOE) to began developing new carbon reduction regulatory rules that Jay Inslee thinks he can impose on the state using his executive authority. Inslee has outlined an aggressive timeline for the DOE to draft the new rule, revealing he is more concerned with his legacy as our nation’s greenest governor than with getting even his extreme “green” agenda right.
Inslee’s special interest donors on the Left are more than willing to prop up our green governor’s legacy by championing the idea of his new carbon cap rules—while also pushing a carbon scheme of their own. An email via our state’s branch of the Nature Conservancy—a national environmental group—reads,
“Over the last month, there have been several major developments: China announced it will reduce its carbon emissions starting in 2017, Governor Inslee has begun a rulemaking process to cap carbon emissions in Washington State, and the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy has announced their intent to file an initiative for a cap and trade measure.”
Extreme “green” group to push initiative in 2016
The email goes on to state that achieving carbon regulations in Washington State relies on, among other factors, placing a “price on carbon.”
Last week, Washingtonians gained insight into what that price on carbon might look like when the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy—a coalition of extreme “green” groups—announced its plan push an initiative in 2016. The details have yet to be released. However, a press release from the alliance claims the initiative’s focus would be to hit our economy by charging businesses enviros don’t like “a fee for each ton of carbon pollution they emit.”
In other words, the initiative would make Inslee’s new carbon rules that much more harmful. That means more damage to our state’s economy while, of course, benefitting special interests groups—which is the Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy’s primary objective.
How do we know? By the alliance’s negative reaction to another carbon initiative on the ballot.
Extreme greenies oppose competing initiative
A relatively new group called Carbon Washington is collecting signatures for Initiative 732, a plan to place a “tax on carbon burned in gasoline, natural gas and other fossil fuels — while cutting other taxes by an equal amount.” The group’s stated goal is to “cut greenhouse-gas emissions and encourage development of cleaner alternatives.” Backers have until the end of the year to qualify the initiative to be placed before the state Legislature in 2016.
That’s a goal you would assume Inslee and extreme “green” groups would get behind. But, you’d be wrong. Very wrong.
The Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy pulled out all the stops in an attempt to discredit I-732. They circulated poll results that suggest I-732 would be rejected by voters. And, they argued the initiative is racist.
Inslee and extreme “green” groups oppose I-732 because, in the end, reducing carbon emissions isn’t really their primary goal. I-732 is a “revenue-neutral” plan, meaning it would not fill state government coffers with more money.
Instead, I-732 proposes to “raise an estimated $1.7 billion a year — and cost the average family an estimated $300 a year in higher gas and energy prices.” It would then pump that money “back to consumers, mostly through a full percentage point cut in the state sales tax.”
Competing initiative exposes extreme greenies true objective
Essentially, I-732 would not allow Inslee to game the system to benefit his campaign donors. That infuriates the extreme green alliance. They prefer Inslee’s cap-and-tax scheme that would raises taxes and use the revenue to benefit “green” donors and their various causes.
Whatever you might think of I-732—whether you support it or not—the extreme green alliance’s rejection of it and its new, competing initiative reveals Inslee and his extreme allies astounding hypocrisy and their true objectives.
The solution is simple, get head size plastic bags and duct tape for all the Greenies, Fit tightly and tape securely to assure no CO2 leakage.
Stops the stupid noise, the CO2 emissions and makes the world a better place.
A win-Win for the ecology, the citizens.
If they really believe the CO2 garbage and the “over Population they should be first to make a serious commitment to the environment, by ending their CO2 emissions.
We do need an adult conversation on population growth. Global population and demand on resources have increased more in the last 50 years, than in the previous 5000 years.
So you are going to tell people to not have children, really, how arrogant.
I have a better solution, stop all liberals from ever breeding, start a sterilization program.
It is after all better for the world, the ecology. They will not be missed, the endless whining, posturing and demanding reminds me of a 3 year old..
The arrogance is astounding.
The Farmers and Ranchers have done more with less in the last 50 years through Engineering and Science than the previous 5000, true. And that in spite the pedantic meddling of the astonishingly ignorant and they will continue to do so.
Science wins, facts win, the agenda 21 mental cases will not be able to kill off 6 billion people to suit their sick fantasy.
If you really think the world is over populated you have a choice, move on.
I’m old, not my problem, but I’m concerned for the world our grandchildren will have to live on.
And yet you work to make it a poorer place for them.
Sad and pathetic.
They deserve better from you.
Dutch Shell and 9 other major oil companies favor a price on carbon to reduce our emissions. According to a recent report in Time magazine, even if every country is able to meet its emissions reductions targets, our planet will warm 6.3 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
That would mean the snowline in the mountains would rise 2000 feet. This would produce heavier stream flows in winter and reduced stream flows in summer, faster evaporation, longer droughts, more crop losses, more forest fires, and more floods.
Exxon scientists were saying this until the board of directors decided self interest trumped public interest.
Complete garbage, the actual trend is -0.5 degrees in the last 20 years.
The fraud of Global Cooling / Warming / Climate change continues to amaze me for the ignorance of it’s adherents and the endless arrogance.
CO2 is NOT a greenhouse gas, Methane is.
Give the scam a rest, nobody buys it anymore, we were all going to freeze to death in the 70’s then fry in the 90’s then the fraud got confused and even more delusional.
The whole “Chicken Little, the sky is falling” just doesn’t sell well anymore.
The people are figuring out they have been lied to.
And yes, corporations will whore out to government if they think they can make money selling the scam of global warming / cooling / change Scam especially if the “Scientists” are on the government payroll.
Why bother with the same old misinformation, it is getting a bit threadbare.
E-mail leaks proving the fraud are too numerous to count.
Find a new lie and champion it.
How about little grey aliens and anal probes, that one may have a smidgen of truth in it, far more than the Global yadda /yadda/ yadda Scam.
Be creative, could be interesting.
The atmosphere is MORE than able at handling 4 parts per 10000 of CO2, the VAST majority of which is NOT anthropogenicially produced. Climate change is a constant thing. I know you’re much too young to remember but it has been an ongoing thing for the last 4000 million years. Man showed up about 100,000 years ago (200,000 at the outside range). Fossil fuel burning began 200 years ago in any significant quantities. CO2 levels have been as high as 20 parts per 10000 with cooler global temperatures and much lower concentrations with higher associated global temperatures. Politicos use the term “carbon pollution”. It is, in fact, carbon dioxide that is the issue. It is a odorless, invisible and inert gas that is an essential part of the planet’s life cycle between plants and animals. It (CO2) is most assuredly NOT pollution. While some increases in CO2 level can be attributed (not proven, scientifically) to be related to the human activity of fossil fuel burning, this activity has also led to an unprecedented increase in human quality of life and wealth over the past 200 years. You and your grandchildren should be MUCH more frightened of being manipulated and pauperized by politicians like Insley and such. They do NOT have your best interest in mind…..just thier own….
Exactly, thank you for the Science lesson.
The “greenies” only care about green printed by the Federal reserve.
They and the Agenda 21 bastards need to be exposed for what they are and prosecuted.
The real problem is the Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission and the Brookings Institute. They run the worlds economy and wars. They tell leaders around the world what is going to happen.
They can go extinct.
Instead of sending billions of dollars each year to Canadian natural gas companies, or other international oil companies, let’s use the money to grow jobs here. Oh wait, that would not sit well with the special interests of Western States Petroleum Companies.
Is nature capable of recycling CO2 as fast as we put it into the air?
Definitely
Each year we discharge 35 billion tons of CO2 into the air and nature can’t recycle it as fast as we do that. That is why our atmosphere contains 40% more CO2 than we had during the time civilization developed.