Bogus Global Warming bill Headed to Governor's Desk

Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill, E2SHB 2815, sponsored by Rep. Hans Dunshee, D-Snohomish, passed the Senate with no amendments this week and is now headed for the Governor's desk. Senate members offered more than a dozen amendments to the bill, but all were defeated. Futurewise (Thousand Friends of Washington) and the Brainerd Foundation were the powers behind the scenes in the passage of this bill and beating back all opposition.

The bill has four major components: direction for Ecology to develop a program to meet greenhouse gas emission standards; direction for the state to explore development of a cap and trade program for carbon emissions; creation of a program to reduce vehicle miles travelled; and a training program for "green collar" enforcement officers to go out and find illegal CO2 emitters around the state. Another vast expansion of environ-nazi rats from the Department of Ecology.

The vehicle miles traveled section is perhaps the most controversial aspect of the bill and was the target of much of the floor discussion. This section establishes benchmarks for the reduction of vehicle miles travelled in Washington. The benchmarks are reductions of 18 percent by 2020, 30 percent by 2035, and 50 percent by 2050. Although we are unsure of how this reduced miles program will be created, these benchmarks will obviously have an exaggerated impact on rural residents of the state. It may mean that half of all automobiles may be outlawed in Washington State.

If you believe as I do that this is nothing but an extremist bunch of bogus nonsense, please fill Governor Gargoyles mailbox with protests. Go to this website and tell the Governor what nut cases she and the rest of the 'global warming caused by CO2' crowd are:
http://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/default.asp