The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 167
Latest CARB Rules Screw Californians Yet Again
From the people who helped bring us poison MTBE; we get a new set
of irrelevant and dangerous regulations
Recent comments from California's Senate President Pro Tem Darrell
Steinberg brings this story back to the front burner
Originally published February 4, 2012
On January 27th of this new year, California’s Air Resources Board unanimously approved a package of new emissions rules that they claim will save
drivers money, create jobs, and cut smog and greenhouse gases under what is
labeled The Advanced Clean Cars Program.
It seems to me, however, that the new rules will do almost exactly the opposite
of what is intended or needed, except in the area of creating new jobs. Unfortunately, the problem with these new jobs, I think, is that the majority of them
will only be opened in the increase of new authoritarian government positions.
Allow me to explain.