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January 30, 2009
Why California Needs a Bailout
Posted by Dave Blount at January 30, 2009 9:12 AM
You would need a federal bailout too, if you ran your life the way moonbats have been running California:
Dozens, and potentially hundreds, of gas stations around California are choosing to shut down rather than comply with a state mandate that would require owners to purchase new equipment to reduce vapor emissions at the pump.
The requirement, known as Phase II in the state's Enhanced Vapor Recovery Program, is set to go into effect in April. It requires gas station owners to individually purchase tens of thousands of dollars of equipment designed to prevent harmful vapors from escaping into the air when gasoline is pumped.
Already 76 filling stations have announced they will shut down rather than attempt to comply with the excessively onerous regulations, which fittingly go into effect on April Fool's Day. But at least the bureauweenies are making the air nice and clean for the polar bears.
April's regulations promise to cut what are known as reactive organic gas emissions by 7 tons per day statewide, but opponents point to the fact that California produces 2,322 tons of such gases per day.
That comes to a 0.3% reduction.
Econazi Dimitri Stanich of the California Air Resources Board displays his math skills:
We do calculate the cost of compliance with the regulation as related to emissions. These costs could be recovered by raising gasoline prices by an average 0.68 cents per gallon.
Is that all? Our rulers want the price of gas much higher, to prevent us plebs from driving wherever we see fit, and to cripple the economy to the point that socialism can be imposed.
On tips from Richard C and Travis A.
