Wednesday, February 24, 2021

STATE AUDITOR SAYS CA GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION PROGRAM IS A COMPLETE CLUSTERFUCK

by Bob Walsh


Elaine Howell is the California State Auditor.  I often think that she may be the only honest competent person with real power in the higher levels of state government.  She calls them like she sees them and her eyesight is pretty good.

In an audit released Tuesday Howell asserted that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) does not come anywhere near earning the high praise it gets from it's supporters.  

The Board failed to measure how well it's regulations actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  It seems to overstate the results of its emission control programs and bases it's wonderfulness primarily on how many times it sued the Trump administration.

The CARB heavily pimps electric vehicles and hands out incentives for purchase of electric vehicles (which run off the electric grid which in large part requires fossil fuel to generate electricity).

The CARB executive officer, Richard Corey, said the agency agrees with a lot of the auditors findings and is working on reforms.  The agency head, Mary Nichols, just recently retired to take a job with the Biden administration to run the EPA.  She was shot down in flames and never got the job. . 

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