People assume government has all the answers when in truth, when pressed very hard for specifics, administrations like the Brown, administration will splutter "It will all work itself out". This scares me. Let me give you an example...
I had to spend months living in Sonoma County after snapping the end of my forarm bone off at the wrist. Ewwwww. I have 1-1/4 hands dexterity. Tough. It builds character...
But driving through the rural areas I noticed insanely thick areas of Live Oak and madrone. With distribution power lines passing within inches of tree limbs and branches. The utility up there is PG&E.
The place I was holed-up at had a woodstove and no LPG. I went from the city of Santa Rosa to Sonoma County to the state of California division of forestry to the US Forest service. Harvesting of wood from state, and county land was utterly forbidden with draconian fines and jail time. This was in 2011-2012 so it has not been that long ago.
The results of that policy sicken me and I do believe the people that forcibly forged their way to achieve such stupidity should be jailed.
So when the issue of "Nice Dream But How Does It Work" is met with stony silence by the Brown administration I absolutely know the mechanics of the stone wall. They haven't got a clue. Brown will have alzheimer's when the mandate comes due and the youngest batch of this bizarre Franz Kafka nightmare will be out of government and back to overbilling clients.
No one is challenging Brown's MANDATES. These are not ideas or platforms - they are LAWS yet to be enforced. No published studies exist, there are no scenarios and inquiries are utterly ignored or answered with boilerplate legaleeze. "The mandate will achieve a sixty percent reduction of carbon emissions and oxides of Nitrogen"
This is gobbledygook very similar to USSR officials telling residents of Pripyat, their evacuation "is only for a few days because of elevated radiation hazard especially to children".
I do not operate my life on guesswork and NO BAD DAYS self hypnosis. When someone insists something forced upon me is mandatory without options and without a description of implementation my ******** meter needle jams past the peg and busts through the case.
In August I sent from Chula Vista California a return receipt letter POLITELY inquiring WHY a regulation forcing manual battery charger manufacturers to install a timer limiter on battery chargers was not chosen over BANNING manual chargers in favor of automatic chargers that destroy batteries. In October I got their answer. From The State Resources board. A pound and a half of printed rules and regulations about this law and even more absurd considerations. The issue of a timer was absent. Laugh on residents of California YOU from your paycheck helped pay the four dollars and some odd cents postage and some tree gave up it's life and who knows how much in state Salary and benefits were wasted in delivering garbage to me. Fuel was burned ink was used and government budget was consumed.
This and the Sonoma county nightmare is not lost on me. Nor is the attention paid to LOST MARIJUANA CROPS DUE TO FIRE while news of orchards and truck farm obliteration was absent. Read again the stonewall about harvesting impossible to walk through tangles of live oak and madrone. Superb firewood.
And I am supposed to be enthusiastic about NO MORE PETROLEUM MOTOR VEHICLES?
If you get bored about researching this, there is always the nightmare of the great Yellowstone National Park NPS mismanagement in the 1980's that allowed lodgepole pine overgrowth to go up in smoke worth a hundred million dollars.
Environmentalists became wraiths then, just as they are wraiths today in California about woodland management. They have other goals. Take a guess at which one tops the list?
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