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Maybe you don’t have a point. But leftards don’t do science and economics, they do feelings. If leftards actually cared about CO2 production they would be promoting nukes and fracking for natural gas. US reduces CO2 production and is condemned because they haven’t signed the worthless Paris Accord. Germany increases CO2 production but signed a worthless piece of paper and is celebrated for virtue signaling. Leftards just want the power and the money from a carbon tax. Leftards refuse to tell us how much it will cost and what will it accomplish. Hundreds of billions flushed down the toilet off the backs of the American middle class. And the dems tell us how much they care.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/climate-alarmism-fails-the-test-of-observation.php
CLIMATE ALARMISM FAILS THE TEST OF OBSERVATION
The Science and Environmental Policy Project produces a weekly newsletter on climate-related subjects, The Week That Was. I highly recommend subscribing to TWTW as the easiest way to keep abreast of climate news.
This week’s edition begins, not for the first time, with a famous quotation from Richard Feynman, one of the greatest of 20th Century scientists:
It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.
The catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theory is falsified by observation, and therefore is wrong. Ken Haapala, SEPP’s President, explains. There is far more at the link, but I will try to excerpt enough to make the point comprehensible:
Ross McKitrick, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Guelph, and John Christy, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville, have undertaken to identify a core hypothesis common to the climate models used by the IPCC and to test the hypothesis against the longest data set available that describes what is actually occurring.
Haapala reminds us that it was McKitrick who demonstrated that Michael Mann’s hockey stick was a hoax, because any random numbers fed into Mann’s formulas would produce–voila!–a hockey stick.
In weeding through the countless hypotheses to identify one common, major testable hypothesis, McKitrick and Christy used four criteria: measurability, specificity, independence and uniqueness.
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They found: “Air temperature in the 200-300 hPa layer of the tropical troposphere meets all four test conditions, pretty much uniquely in the climate system as far as we are aware.” The 1979 Charney report and all five IPCC reports indicate that any CO2-caused warming will be amplified by an increase in water vapor, primarily over the tropics.
As you probably know, a doubling of atmospheric CO2 arguably may produce a one degree C warming, which pretty much everyone agrees would be a good thing, especially as the additional CO2 would help to green the planet. In order to get the “catastrophic” into CAGW, you have to assume something else: that this one degree warming would produce significantly more water vapor in the environment. It is this hypothetical (but unobserved) water vapor that accounts for the overwhelming majority of the warming claimed by the alarmists’ models.
This theory isn’t very plausible, since the Earth has often, in the past, been a degree warmer than it is now, and that never led to runaway warming due to increased water vapor. But back to the subject at hand:
Using three different 60-year sets of weather balloon records, they test the warming demonstrated in the models against observations. They find:
The mean restricted trend (without a break term) is 0.325 +/- 0.132ºC/decade in the models and 0.173 +/- 0.056ºC/decade in the observations. With a break term included they are 0.389ºC/decade (models) and 0.142 +/- 0.115ºC/decade (observed). Figure 4 shows the individual trend magnitudes.
The break-term is the adjustment for the PCS. During the 60 years covered, the CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa went up 29%.
As McKitrick states in his post, this finding shows that “models misrepresent a process fundamental to their usability for studying the climate impacts of greenhouse gases.” That is, the models show warming trends that are significantly greater than the observed warming – about 2.7 times the observed trend for the data sets that include the [Pacific Climate Shift] (Pacific Decadal Oscillation).
The warming bias in the models should be unacceptable for any prudent government agency, including the EPA which relies on the GCMs for its finding that CO2 endangers public health and welfare.
In most industries, if you produced calculations that were off by a factor of 2.7, you would quickly be out of a job. But government, and pro-government research, are different. Here the purpose is not to be right, but to produce alarmist reports that, amplified by uncritical news stories written by ideologically aligned journalists, justify ever-greater government control over the economy and many billions of dollars in “green” cronyism. When the whole purpose of an enterprise is corruption, truth is only an inconvenience.
Still, truth remains an annoying presence–annoying, that is, if you are a global warming alarmist. Feynman’s adage remains indisputable: a theory that is disproved by observation is worthless.
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Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
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You have to be fucktarded to think the Earth isn't warmer. Even if 90% of the world scientists are wrong that humans are at least partially responsible. The worst case is we have some cleaner air to breathe. And shit costs a few cents more.SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place. -
He got the HondoFS name for a reason...SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place. -
Keep arguing about how tax cuts have increased revenue. On our way to a trillion dollar deficit.HoustonHusky said:
He got the HondoFS name for a reason...SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place. -
Big surprise, but you completely miss the point. Than what? Nobody disagrees with idea the earth is warming from the mini-ice age in the late 1600s...Mann was completely wrong in his hockey stick graph though, and all the Global Warming predictions of the last 30 years have been completely wrong as well.2001400ex said:
You have to be fucktarded to think the Earth isn't warmer. Even if 90% of the world scientists are wrong that humans are at least partially responsible. The worst case is we have some cleaner air to breathe. And shit costs a few cents more.SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place.
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Well it sure is a good thing that what was posted didn't claim the earth isn't warmer. You sure love to fuck strawman ass Hondo.2001400ex said:
You have to be fucktarded to think the Earth isn't warmer. Even if 90% of the world scientists are wrong that humans are at least partially responsible. The worst case is we have some cleaner air to breathe. And shit costs a few cents more.SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place. -
HoustonHusky said:
Big surprise, but you completely miss the point. Than what? Nobody disagrees with idea the earth is warming from the mini-ice age in the late 1600s...Mann was completely wrong in his hockey stick graph though, and all the Global Warming predictions of the last 30 years have been completely wrong as well.2001400ex said:
You have to be fucktarded to think the Earth isn't warmer. Even if 90% of the world scientists are wrong that humans are at least partially responsible. The worst case is we have some cleaner air to breathe. And shit costs a few cents more.SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place.
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SFGbob said:
Well it sure is a good thing that what was posted didn't claim the earth isn't warmer. You sure love to fuck strawman ass Hondo.2001400ex said:
You have to be fucktarded to think the Earth isn't warmer. Even if 90% of the world scientists are wrong that humans are at least partially responsible. The worst case is we have some cleaner air to breathe. And shit costs a few cents more.SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place.
The argument is that we wasted several billions of dollars on the backs of middle class trying to reduce greenhouse gasses. As stated right in the first paragraph. Then goes on to discredit research on global warming.
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Hey look...fun with charts. If I poast more does that mean I'm right?
God you are FS... -
What does the US have to do with "global" warning? For reals. You think the US is the base of the world? And you think average days over 95 degrees is meaningful? Haha wow.HoustonHusky said:Hey look...fun with charts. If I poast more does that mean I'm right?
God you are FS...
So such fag Bob..... Houston is exactly what I referring to. He doesn't believe the Earth is warmer. Cause the number of days over 95 degrees in the United States hasn't changed from his graph. -
Thank you for walking into another one. Exactly how many countries do you think had scientific temperature stations set up back up in 1970 to record data, much less before 1970. How again do you think scientists (who are trying to prove global warming) made "Global" data sets for all of those (almost all other countries, much less Ocean and isolated areas) that didn't have temperature stations? Helpful hint...it aint raw data they are using...and its a question you fail to answer around here on a seemingly yearly basis.2001400ex said:
What does the US have to do with "global" warning? For reals. You think the US is the base of the world? And you think average days over 95 degrees is meaningful? Haha wow.HoustonHusky said:Hey look...fun with charts. If I poast more does that mean I'm right?
God you are FS...
So such fag Bob..... Houston is exactly what I referring to. He doesn't believe the Earth is warmer. Cause the number of days over 95 degrees in the United States hasn't changed from his graph.
I'm sure it is just a wild, freak coincidence that the rest of the globe warmed dramatically while the only places that actually measured it show in the raw data that although there was a general warming from the mini-Ice Age, there was a huge spike in temps in the 1930s (hmm...wonder what in the news could have correlated to that) and its nothing like what is being claimed by the people trying use it to take political control of everything. Magic...
Its also why all the most recent models fail miserably when trying to correlate CO2 data to the recent temperature data.
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See.HoustonHusky said:
Thank you for walking into another one. Exactly how many countries do you think had scientific temperature stations set up back up in 1970 to record data, much less before 1970. How again do you think scientists (who are trying to prove global warming) made "Global" data sets for all of those (almost all other countries, much less Ocean and isolated areas) that didn't have temperature stations? Helpful hint...it aint raw data they are using...and its a question you fail to answer around here on a seemingly yearly basis.2001400ex said:
What does the US have to do with "global" warning? For reals. You think the US is the base of the world? And you think average days over 95 degrees is meaningful? Haha wow.HoustonHusky said:Hey look...fun with charts. If I poast more does that mean I'm right?
God you are FS...
So such fag Bob..... Houston is exactly what I referring to. He doesn't believe the Earth is warmer. Cause the number of days over 95 degrees in the United States hasn't changed from his graph.
I'm sure it is just a wild, freak coincidence that the rest of the globe warmed dramatically while the only places that actually measured it show in the raw data that although there was a general warming from the mini-Ice Age, there was a huge spike in temps in the 1930s (hmm...wonder what in the news could have correlated to that) and its nothing like what is being claimed by the people trying use it to take political control of everything. Magic...
Its also why all the most recent models fail miserably when trying to correlate CO2 data to the recent temperature data.
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I lie to make most of my points
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Is the tug now under Russian bot invasion?
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Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus.
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You sound poor.WestlinnDuck said:
Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus. -
That's not because of global warming. That's cause California taxes. Nice rant tho.WestlinnDuck said:
Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus.
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Please define what you mean by a few cents?2001400ex said:
You have to be fucktarded to think the Earth isn't warmer. Even if 90% of the world scientists are wrong that humans are at least partially responsible. The worst case is we have some cleaner air to breathe. And shit costs a few cents more.SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place.
Now, if you literally mean "shit costs a few cents more", then I happen to agree. -
Shit does emit methane gas and carbon dioxide that does harm the environment.greenblood said:
Please define what you mean by a few cents?2001400ex said:
You have to be fucktarded to think the Earth isn't warmer. Even if 90% of the world scientists are wrong that humans are at least partially responsible. The worst case is we have some cleaner air to breathe. And shit costs a few cents more.SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place.
Now, if you literally mean "shit costs a few cents more", then I happen to agree. -
And the rationale for most of those California taxes?2001400ex said:
That's not because of global warming. That's cause California taxes. Nice rant tho.WestlinnDuck said:
Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus.
And I'll trust the work of people who study the climate for a living over politicians, oil companies, and political pundits.
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I thought the "argument" was that someone here was claiming the earth isn't warmer and that you have to be a "fucktard" to think that it isn't warmer? Why are you moving the goal posts Hondo? No one here is claiming that the earth isn't warmer.2001400ex said:SFGbob said:
Well it sure is a good thing that what was posted didn't claim the earth isn't warmer. You sure love to fuck strawman ass Hondo.2001400ex said:
You have to be fucktarded to think the Earth isn't warmer. Even if 90% of the world scientists are wrong that humans are at least partially responsible. The worst case is we have some cleaner air to breathe. And shit costs a few cents more.SFGbob said:Brilliant rebuttal Hondo, you completely destroyed his argument.
Is Hondo like the retarded mascot of this board? Is he tolerated here they way some families tolerate their mentally challenged relations?
I'm just trying to get a better understanding of the zeitgeist of this place.
The argument is that we wasted several billions of dollars on the backs of middle class trying to reduce greenhouse gasses. As stated right in the first paragraph. Then goes on to discredit research on global warming.
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Really? Because I'm fairly certain that he said in one of his earlier posts in this thread that the earth is warmer.2001400ex said:
What does the US have to do with "global" warning? For reals. You think the US is the base of the world? And you think average days over 95 degrees is meaningful? Haha wow.HoustonHusky said:Hey look...fun with charts. If I poast more does that mean I'm right?
God you are FS...
So such fag Bob..... Houston is exactly what I referring to. He doesn't believe the Earth is warmer. Cause the number of days over 95 degrees in the United States hasn't changed from his graph. -
Nobody disagrees with idea the earth is warming from the mini-ice age in the late 1600s.
You don't really bother to read or try to understand what people here are actually saying do you Hondo? You're kind of a wind up toy who is just going to spew your rhetoric regardless what anyone else is saying.
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The communists in California.RaceBannon said:
And the rationale for most of those California taxes?2001400ex said:
That's not because of global warming. That's cause California taxes. Nice rant tho.WestlinnDuck said:
Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus.
And I'll trust the work of people who study the climate for a living over politicians, oil companies, and political pundits.
Dumb as a fucking rock
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The special fuel blend that CA requires as well as the recent additional 12 cents a gallon gas tax is all sold as a way to address global warming.RaceBannon said:
And the rationale for most of those California taxes?2001400ex said:
That's not because of global warming. That's cause California taxes. Nice rant tho.WestlinnDuck said:
Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus.
And I'll trust the work of people who study the climate for a living over politicians, oil companies, and political pundits.
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They need money to help pay for free health care and collegeSFGbob said:
The special fuel blend that CA requires as well as the recent additional 12 cents a gallon gas tax is all sold as a way to address global warming.RaceBannon said:
And the rationale for most of those California taxes?2001400ex said:
That's not because of global warming. That's cause California taxes. Nice rant tho.WestlinnDuck said:
Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus.
And I'll trust the work of people who study the climate for a living over politicians, oil companies, and political pundits.
Dumb as a fucking rockeducationindoctrination (into socialism, Marxism, "racial justice," i.e. hating white people) for the illegal aliens.
But don't use the phrase 'illegal alien' on Twitter, Facebook or in connection with any Apple App. That phrase has been outlawed by the self appointed arbiters of speech.
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OBK prefers to keep his voting block dumb and uneducated.oregonblitzkrieg said:
They need money to help pay for free health care and collegeSFGbob said:
The special fuel blend that CA requires as well as the recent additional 12 cents a gallon gas tax is all sold as a way to address global warming.RaceBannon said:
And the rationale for most of those California taxes?2001400ex said:
That's not because of global warming. That's cause California taxes. Nice rant tho.WestlinnDuck said:
Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus.
And I'll trust the work of people who study the climate for a living over politicians, oil companies, and political pundits.
Dumb as a fucking rockeducationindoctrination (into socialism, Marxism, "racial justice," i.e. hating white people) for the illegal aliens.
But don't use the phrase 'illegal alien' on Twitter, Facebook or in connection with any Apple App. That phrase has been outlawed by the self appointed arbiters of speech.
Welcome to 1984. -
Wut??? (Copy pasta below)SFGbob said:
The special fuel blend that CA requires as well as the recent additional 12 cents a gallon gas tax is all sold as a way to address global warming.RaceBannon said:
And the rationale for most of those California taxes?2001400ex said:
That's not because of global warming. That's cause California taxes. Nice rant tho.WestlinnDuck said:
Hondo is a leftard. Leftards don’t do numbers and sh*t. Leftards don’t care about the private sector working families. Yeah, the fraud of global warming only costs a few cents. Like the price of a gallon of gas in Cali is $3.63 a gallon. In Texas its $2.59 a gallon. So, each 20 gallon tank of gas costs a working family an extra $20.80 cents. Then electricity prices are 19.9 cents a kilowatt hour. In Texas, 11.4 cents a kilowatt hour. So, Hondo feels that having an electrical bill that is 75% higher is just a few cents. Hondo is a rube that feels that he is somehow smarter that the conservatives on this board. Hondo needs to go get his participation ribbon and a hug from an adult. Then it’s back home in the short yellow bus.
And I'll trust the work of people who study the climate for a living over politicians, oil companies, and political pundits.
Dumb as a fucking rock
The bill is expected to raise about $5 billion a year to fund state and local transportation projects ranging from fixing potholes to promoting bicycling to reducing congestion on major highways. Several Republicans and anti-tax groups are trying to overturn the increases. One proposal would require any increase in car, gasoline or fuel taxes to be approved by voters, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2017, said Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/California-gas-taxes-to-rise-12-cents-a-gallon-12309892.php -
The fuel tax is also used to pay for mass transit projects. These projects were sold to the public as another way for the state to reduce greenhouse gases. The other thing I cited was the fuel blend that California mandates.
SAN FRANCISCO — Even as drivers debate repealing California’s recent gasoline-tax hike, an often-overlooked state program has quietly helped push fuel prices higher.
Dubbed the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, the program is designed to fight climate change by forcing oil companies to lower the “carbon intensity” of the fuels they sell in California.
For years, it had little effect on gasoline prices, tacking on an estimated 3 or 4 cents per gallon.
Over the past year, however, the program’s effect at the pump has been growing, because of a run-up in prices for a type of tradable credit at the heart of the program. Although the fuel standard’s exact impact on retail gasoline prices is impossible to track, the Oil Price Information Service now estimates it to be 8.5 cents per gallon.
The gas-tax hike, signed into law in April by Gov. Jerry Brown to pay for road repairs, stands at 12 cents per gallon. California’s cap-and-trade system for limiting greenhouse-gas emissions adds another 12 cents, according to several estimates.
