Big Oil and citizenship

nw30 · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:46 pm Post subject:

I'm sure this is making mac break out in a rash of happiness~
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City to vote on climate change labels at gas pumps

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - The San Francisco Bay Area city of Berkeley will decide whether to slap stickers on gas pumps warning that burning fuel contributes to global warming in a plan that's a first of its kind in the country.

The Berkeley City Council is expected to vote Tuesday night on whether to move forward with the proposal to put climate-change warning labels on gas pumps citywide. San Francisco is drafting a similar ordinance that officials could vote on by next spring.

A spokeswoman for the Western States Petroleum Association, an oil-industry lobbying group, has said the labels reflect the state's and Berkeley's opinions and would force "unwanted speech in violation of the First Amendment."

The labels are part of a voter-approved city plan to reduce emissions by 33 percent between 2000 and 2020.

Copyright 2014 The Associated Press.

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/27416651/city-to-vote-on-climate-change-labels-at-gas-pumps

I expect the next product sold in Berkeley, to get the same label, will be all packages of meat sold in all the grocery stores.

uwindsurf · Joined: 18 Aug 2012 Posts: 968 Location: Classified

The Keystone project should not be about politics?

Yeah, right:

On Keystone, Senate Democrats are moving toward a vote largely to help Landrieu, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources chairwoman. She is facing off in the December runoff against Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, who sponsored the House's Keystone bill and has been promised a seat of his own on the energy panel. The measure offers Landrieu a final chance to demonstrate her clout before voters return to the polls.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/18/politics/senate-keystone-vote/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

mac · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:26 pm Post subject:

I'm just hoping that NW is indoctrinated about the actual facts on global warming. A scene out of Clockwork Orange comes to mind. NW is third in line after mrgybe and Isobars. Now that would involve a rash of happiness!

mrgybe · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 5180

Would respond but too busy battening down the hatches for record cold temperatures...........again. Of course, it's just weather...........again.

nw30 · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:31 am Post subject:

mac · Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:44 am Post subject:

The ability to recognize irony is apparently not taught in the schools attended by mrgybe and NW.

DaneDingerson · Joined: 18 Nov 2014 Posts: 2

Nw sure has a bunch of stupid opinions to assign today.

Years of Talk Radio indoctrination and you wind up thinking assigning dumb opinions to others is valid commentary. Talk does this nonstop.