""CARB"

This particular posting goes out to all of you extremely bright folks who've decided to live someplace else besides California.

Or as I affectionately call it, "Taxifornia."  Because it has the very highest taxes, of all forms, in the Nation.  

So I, The Chuckmeister, wish to both recognize and honor you who either were here and decided to flee, or could have moved here...and didn't.  I metaphorically bow in your digital presence.

Anyway, that stated, I think you know I'm sort of like a mini-Drudge.  The Drudge folks comb a thousand stories each day to choose 100 or so to feature.  I, on the other hand, comb through a hundred or so stories a day and choose to comment on perhaps one.  Here's that one...

You likely didn't read about the California Air Resources Board's recent decision to outlaw the sale of automobiles utilizing internal combustion engines here in CA by the year 2035.  No, I'm not kidding.  "CARB," as it's known, is a bureaucratic agency filled to the brim with leftoids who fear greenhouse gases more than naked homeless, knife-wielding zealots.  I add that last bit because CARB is all comfy like in their own 14 story green glass building in (once) beautiful San Francystco.   

Life was breathed into CARB back in 1976 by then-Gov. Ronnie Reagan.  You'll recall nearly everybody was worried about CA pollution back then, most of all him.  He wanted CARB to help solve problems.

It's done nothing but to create them.

CARB is now operated by a Board of 16 unelected members.  It now has 1,381 employees.  It has a budget - get this - of $581 Million Dollars a Year!  And it's decided that the way to "fix" CA's "air resources" problems is to ban to sale of cars that right now more than 92% of its citizens are choosing to purchase and drive.  And it's mandating this titanic change be made in only 13 years from now.  

BTW, this is a little note to all those no doubt brilliant CARB Board members who each now earn $125,000 a year:

The climate is not confined to a single state.  The Earth revolves on its axis.  Left to right, to make it very simple.  And "climate," most of us call it the weather, moves up there in the atmosphere Right to Left.  So the "climate" that's in Shanghai today...will be in San Franpoopco next week.

But hey.  I'm just an aging blogger with a bad back, who can often manage to ferret out reality from a whole big basket full of obfuscation...