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Re: The High-Speed Rail Project: Progress? Imagine the real CO2 reductions you could get by using the carbon funds for a tax credit to update your AC over the last decade?
Author: BOB2
Date: 05-03-2024 - 13:41
Commenter Wrote:
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> This is from California Climate Investments.
>
> California Climate Investments is funded by
> proceeds from the sale of state‑owned
> allowances from quarterly
> Cap‑and‑Trade auctions that are
> deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
> (GGRF). On a yearly basis, the Legislature
> distributes the money from the GGRF to programs
> administered by different State agencies. Any
> program that is paid for using money from the GGRF
> is a California Climate Investments program.
>
> [www.caclimateinvestments.ca.gov]
> les/high-speed-rail-progress
>
> This is also where that credit you got recently
> (if you live in California) on your power bill
> came from.
How exactly will spending $4 billion on 4 stations help reduce carbon emissions?
Those who deny science will whine, and of course, the apologist's for the "runaway money train", will disagree. But if we are theorectically trying to reduce CO2 emissions, a far more cost effective solution might be to give some of us taxpayers a 'tax credit" to update AC systems...?
The contractor's welfare program, that can't seem to currently find more federal funds to dip into, is going to stop building rail line, so they can spend this "state" cap and trade money on "gold plated" billion dollar stations as the next "priority" for the CAHSRA's gold plated "runaway money train" fiasco...
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> This is from California Climate Investments.
>
> California Climate Investments is funded by
> proceeds from the sale of state‑owned
> allowances from quarterly
> Cap‑and‑Trade auctions that are
> deposited into the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
> (GGRF). On a yearly basis, the Legislature
> distributes the money from the GGRF to programs
> administered by different State agencies. Any
> program that is paid for using money from the GGRF
> is a California Climate Investments program.
>
> [www.caclimateinvestments.ca.gov]
> les/high-speed-rail-progress
>
> This is also where that credit you got recently
> (if you live in California) on your power bill
> came from.
How exactly will spending $4 billion on 4 stations help reduce carbon emissions?
Those who deny science will whine, and of course, the apologist's for the "runaway money train", will disagree. But if we are theorectically trying to reduce CO2 emissions, a far more cost effective solution might be to give some of us taxpayers a 'tax credit" to update AC systems...?
The contractor's welfare program, that can't seem to currently find more federal funds to dip into, is going to stop building rail line, so they can spend this "state" cap and trade money on "gold plated" billion dollar stations as the next "priority" for the CAHSRA's gold plated "runaway money train" fiasco...
| Subject | Written By | Date/Time (PST) |
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 The High-Speed Rail Project: Progress Over the Last Decade
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Commenter | 05-03-2024 - 12:14 |
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Re: The High-Speed Rail Project: Progress? Imagine the real CO2 reductions you could get by using the carbon funds for a tax credit to update your AC over the last decade? |
BOB2 | 05-03-2024 - 13:41 |
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Re: The High-Speed Rail Project: Progress? Imagine the real CO2 reductions you could get by using the carbon funds for a tax credit to update your AC over the last decade?
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Commenter | 05-03-2024 - 22:38 |
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Re: The High-Speed Rail Project: Progress? Clever response, but you left a couple of stations out...
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BOB2 | 05-04-2024 - 10:26 |
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Re: The High-Speed Rail Project:
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Commenter | 05-06-2024 - 12:38 |