Gray Davis' New Girlfriend
Davis signs greenhouse gas regulation legislation
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The effect of greenhouse gas restrictions is to make power and transportation more expensive. Since places like China are not subject to the Kyoto Treaty's restrictions, enactment by the United States would simply encourage employers to move even more manufacturing jobs offshore. The people who think this is a good idea obviously don't understand how all that merchandise finds its way into the like, you know, shopping mall, or how Daddy earns the money to pay off his like, you know, credit card.
"Gasoline would rise by 50 cents or more a gallon [about 33 percent versus 2000 prices]; the cost of running industrial plants and energy-hungry computers would soar. According to a consensus of projections, the growth of gross domestic product in the U.S. would be cut by more than half as businesses moved offshore to escape the high [carbon] tax" (Glassman, James K. 2000. "Forget Kyoto." Wall Street Journal, 11/30/2000, editorial pages.) What part of "move jobs offshore" do the Kyoto Treaty's supporters not understand?