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August 27, 2015

Title: Reduce Gas Consumption by 50%
Topic: Reduce Gas Consumption by 50% - Get Real

Discussed by Megan Toombs
with Cornwall Alliance (www.CornwallAlliance.org)

California lawmakers are attempting to reduce gas consumption in the state by fifty percent “to achieve ambient air quality standards and the state’s climate goals”.

And the brilliant representatives of the people of the state of California want to place additional regulatory authority in the hands of the California Air Resources Board, a group of bureaucrats, who would then decide exactly how to force citizens to comply.

This is a fight between freedom-loving citizens and their authoritarian representatives, and dictatorial state agencies. The damage to individuals, and businesses, will be catastrophic. It could turn the steady stream of people leaving California into a veritable tidal wave.

The hardest hit group will be the poor. Gas taxes are always regressive, hitting those who spend a larger percent of their income the hardest. Poorer people also have older cars, cars that will no longer meet state standards, and that will be forced off the road.

How can people barely making enough money to feed their families afford an electric vehicle with a price tag of $50,000?

They can’t.

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