SF Could Become First In Nation To Charge 'Pollution Fee'

[DeclinetoState]

Move Meant To Help Slow Global Warming<br>
POSTED: 6:10 am PDT May 21, 2008
UPDATED: 8:11 am PDT May 21, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's (http://www.baaqmd.gov/) board of directors is set to take an unprecedented vote Wednesday on new rules to charge businesses a fee for the pollution they emit.

The group's board of directors was set to vote on new rules that would impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

If the board approves the plan, the agency, which regulates air pollution in the nine-county Bay Area, would be the first in the country to charge companies fees based on their greenhouse gas emissions, experts say. The new rules would take effect July 1.

The modest fee -- 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide -- probably won't be enough to force companies to reduce their emissions, but backers say it sets an important precedent in combating climate change and could serve as a model for regional air districts nationwide.
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The "modest fee" will, of course, go up over time.

[Lubbock]

The City Counsel of San Fagsicko spent a year debating whether to ban public urination.

That's probably all that needs to be said.

[DoctorDoom]

The modest fee -- 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide ...Earth to San Fagsicko: your population (http://sanfrancisco.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm) was 776,733 as of 2000. The average CO2 output of a human is 365 kg or 805 pounds. Therefore your population produces 312,635 tons of CO2 per year. If you tax your people 4.4 cents/ton, you'll raise $13,756 that you can use to buy free condoms for your infestation of butt-buddies.

[DesertFox]

Business will unass the place at a record pace. These fools just lit the Depression Light under its faggots.

[sunsettommy]

The modest fee -- 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide -- probably won't be enough to force companies to reduce their emissions, but backers say it sets an important precedent in combating climate change and could serve as a model for regional air districts nationwide.


Modest fee or not.It shows how stupid they are since they seem to think it is desirable to stop climate change.


The group's board of directors was set to vote on new rules that would impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

If the board approves the plan, the agency, which regulates air pollution in the nine-county Bay Area, would be the first in the country to charge companies fees based on their greenhouse gas emissions,


Apparently stupid enough to believe that CO2 is a pollutant.

CO2 is NOT a "heat trapping" gas.IR are not being trapped.They are being slowed down in their flight from the planet.Actually only a small amount of the IR are being absorbed by any of the so called "greenhouse" gases.A lot of the IR zooms right back into space without being absorbed at all.

Here is something these brainless morons have failed to consider.Quoting myself that was originally posted at my forum.:


Surface Ocean contains about 1,000 Gigatons of CO2

Intermediate and deep ocean contains about 38,000 Gt of CO2

In contrast to the atmosphere containing about 750 GT of CO2

Vegetation,Soils and Detritus contains about 2,200 GT of CO2

Each year, the surface ocean and atmosphere exchange an estimated 90 GT C; vegetation and the atmosphere, 60 GT C; marine biota and the surface ocean, 50 GT C; and the surface ocean and the intermediate and deep oceans, 100 GT C."

Mankind emits about 8.5 GT of CO2 per year.

The atmosphere CO2 is cycled out in less than 8 years.


This "pollutant" is all over the planet.When will San Friscos clean up their "polluted" bay.It has a lot of CO2 in it ya know.What about the region around the San Frisco bay area deal with all that ground "pollution"? Lots of CO2 there as well ya know.

Vegetarians eat far more CO2 pollution than meat eaters.

:roar:

[Rhino]

Business will unass the place at a record pace.Unass?????

[DeclinetoState]

The City Counsel of San Fagsicko spent a year debating whether to ban public urination.

That's probably all that needs to be said.
If they could have found a way to charge a fee for public urination, they might still be debating the issue.