Posted by BOE Member George Runner at 12:00 am on Sep 16, 2009 1 Comment
Imagine that you are the proud owner of a cement manufacturing
company. The government has just sent you an informative, yet
unfortunate reminder that your production costs are about to be
raised yet again.
As a person working in the cement industry, you probably
followed the legislative proceedings regarding the Global Warming
Solution Act of 2006 (Nunez), that was passed into California
law. After three years, you receive this reminder from the
government that, after three long years, their statewide crackdown
on global warming is ready for action!
Well, not exactly.
Before things really get going, they’ll need just a little more
of your money: 10 cents for every ton of cement that your plant
produces, to be exact. This may not seem like much to an ordinary
citizen, but you know full well that the average cement
establishment, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Portland
Cement Association, produces over 420,000 tons of cement yearly.
This means that the $42,000 you could have spent to create another
California job is now going to help pay for a new government
position on the Air Resources Board.
And even that assessment is an… Read More