The Governator and Global Warming

In a move apparently at odds with the BushCorp™ "jury's still out on global warming" stance, Ahnold today announced an "Environmental Action Plan" setting forth far stricter emmissions control goals than required under US law.

Schwarzenegger's "Environmental Action Plan" calls for reducing the state's emissions of such gases to 2000 levels by 2010, 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, the governor's office said.

And though I applaud such stated goals, I still remain skeptical that when the specifics are nailed down, as they have yet to be, the Governator will truly act against the interests of his big-money, big-business backers.

Let us hope, though, that the Governor will follow through with effective low-emmissions policies for automobiles. And let us further hope that said policies will not be blocked by automaker interests lobbying at the national level.

For if successful, California's resolve may force a change at the national level by forcing re-calcitrant auto-makers to relenquish their ill-conceived, short-sighted, and, given the possibly devastating consequences, borderline treasonous reliance on smog--belching, gas-guzzling SUVs.