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May 22, 2008
San Francisco Imposes Fee on CO2
Posted by Dave Blount at May 22, 2008 11:20 AM
As energy prices soar and the economy stalls, San Francisco bureaucrats provide their solution. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors voted 15-1 to impose fees on businesses that emit carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide is a harmless gas that is highly beneficial to plant life. It is produced by literally all human activities, including breathing.
But not to worry: NBC says the fee is "modest" — though it "could serve as a model for regional air districts nationwide."
Ominously, "renewable energy expert" Daniel Kammen of U.C.-Berkeley gloats:
It's not enough of a cost to change behavior [i.e., prevent economically productive activity], but it tells us where things are headed.
The Soviet Union is going to look like a libertarian's dream of freedom and wealth compared to the dystopia being incrementally imposed on us in the name of the global warming hoax.
On a tip from mega.
