Some states want to punish fuel-efficient car drivers!

"Jeff" > wrote in message
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> On Jan 17, 4:28 pm, "Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@lycos/com> wrote:
>> All one need do is look at the price of property in California and it
>> become
>> apparent what the runaway environmentalism of the environuts has done to
>> its
>> cost, and the costs of many other things in that state like prices for
>> fuel
>> and electricity
>
> Certainly, the price of buying houses in the Silicon Valley Area and
> San Fransisco are amoungst the highest in the nation. But this has
> very little to do with the environmental regulations. It has a lot
> more to do with people love the climate and people like to work for a
> lot of money in the electronics and biotech industries as well as at
> some world-class universities.
>
> The cost of electricity in CA is less than the cost in New England
> states. I don't know how much of this has to do with environmental
> regulations. Much of the cost might have to with the free market
> system where utilities bought electricity from companies like Enron.
> California now gets a lot of its electricity from burning natural gas.
>
> However, I don't consider environmentalists nuts. Rather, they are
> people who like the environment that we all share to survive. I don't
> see what is so nutty about that.

Social engineering, the DAHLING of LIEbrawls everywhere is what is nutty.
Penalize industry and you won't HAVE the revenue to your greeny ****.

>
> jeff
>
>> "John David Galt" > wrote in
>> ...
>>
>> >>>> The true purpose of the environmental movement is to keep the prices
>> >>>> of homes, especially good (single-family detached) homes,
>> >>>> outrageously high and climbing higher forever.
>>
>> >>> Now there's a fascinating statement. I'd love to see the full thesis
>> >>> and supporting evidence that backs it all up, but since this is
>> >>> USENET I know I never will.
>>
>> >> And if that's the case, Wall Street and the banking industry is chock
>> >> full of environmentalists.
>>
>> > Marin County certainly is, and it demonstrates how they got their way.
>> > Just TRY to move there if you don't have more money than God.
>