California's global warming pains
California's fight against global warming has turned into a bit of a low-profile mud wrestling match in the electricity industry, which is the second-biggest source of carbon dioxide after motor vehicles.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Southern California utilities, such as Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, might wind up paying more than a half-billion dollars annually in extra fees. Why? Because LADWP and other taxpayer-owned utilities get electricity from the nation's dirtiest source -- coal.
The coal plants are located in Utah and Arizona, where the state has no authority. But state officials are considering regulating the "first deliverers" who bring the electricity to the state line. Usually, those are energy middlemen or utilities.
Customers' bills could soar, critics say. Millions of dollars could be siphoned from coal-reliant cities, such as Burbank or Anaheim, they say. The idea smacks of the shift of wealth that took place seven years ago in the ill-fated electricity deregulation debaucle in California.
But others say LA power customers have enjoyed some of the lowest rates in the state by using electricity created by coal-powered energy. The extra fees should be spread to other utilities for building environmentally friendly power generation, say supporters, including Southern California Edison.
The proposals have been discussed at workshops this week in San Francisco. It could be many months before any decisions are made.
Comments:
On Earth Day, I bought a new car.
The good news is that, since my old car had been running for a good 6 months with the “Check engine” light on, I’m probably fouling the air less than I was the day before.
Posted by: Tarunkjuyal at April 24, 2008 5:08 AM
Not only California have pains on global warming all of the highly industrialized countries are now inhibiting the effects of the global warming. This due to the rapid increased of big factories which contributes much to the increased of the global warming.
Additional information:
The average global air temperature near the Earth's surface increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the hundred years ending in 2005.
Natural phenomena such as solar variation combined with volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward. These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least thirty scientific societies and academies of science,including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.
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