THE CALIFORNIA AGENCY OF RETARDED BUREAUCRATS Non-partisan Analyst Says Global Warming Regulations Will Cost California Jobs Letter to CARB Member, Sandra Berg Please Join Eco-Nazi Senator Pavley at State Budget Town Hall What should schools teach about global warming? CARBtastrophe - From LATC Transporter Dan Logue discusses his ballot initiative to suspend AB32 and save jobs on the KSFO Morning Show Dutton Calls on Air Board to Freeze Anti-Warming Measures Until Jobs Impact Report is Complete Senator Huff Takes Aim at the California Energy Commission Voter's Guide to Jerry Brown Everything is Connected to Everything Else: Essay by Mary Nichols (with a place to comment) Dr. James Enstrom on the KSFO Morning Show The Symposium on PM2.5: "The Science is not Settled" Order Brian Sussman's Book in the Climategate Section Goldstene Letter to Dr. Young: Science Not In Question Carroll Nast, Sierra Club Hack: We Can't Afford to Suspend AB32 Make your own KILLCARB T-Shirts New Letter Sent to Able Maldonado Cost of AB32 by California Small Businesses by Sanjay B. Varshney, Ph.D. & Dennis H. Tootelian, Ph.D. Fiscal impact of state climate law disputed Low Carbon Fuel Lawsuit Alleges "CARB ignored Data During Rule Making". Sound Familiar? Attorney General's Job is to Protect State Agency Wrongdoers Says Brown (see his February 2, 2010 reply letter) Bryan Bloom on Chris Reed show discussing CARB diesel rules CARB Credibility Issues Heard at the January 28, 2010 Meeting May 2008, The Release of the Hien Tran Draft Report on pM2.5 Former Chair, John Dunlap Blasts CARB for Cover-up Ron Loveridge: "Don't Suspend the Rules" Ken Yeager: Saviour of the Planet Roger Niello and Dan Logue Stand With Truckers at the 12/9 CARB Meeting Mary Nichols Apologizes for her Role in the Hien Tran Cover up Lydia Kennard: Defender of Hien Tran and the Coverup John Balmes: Climate Fear Monger CARB Lawyer Ellen Peter Tells Dr. John Telles "No Rules Were Broken" Dr. John Telles' Letter to CARB Chief Legal Counsel Ellen Peter Regarding the Hien Tran Fraud

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Your tax dollars fund CARB. In fiscal year 2007-08 they got $722 million for 1172 employees. In fiscal year 2008-09 they got $650 million for 1272 employees, and in fiscal year 2009-10, your state legislators and the governor fired over  8500 teachers in the state in order to give $857 million to this outrageously corrupt state agency and its 1280 employees.    Why?  Easy.  Follow the money.  The  CARB payroll is loaded with political friends of the legislators.    Hundreds of these worthless so-called public servants  collect hundred thousand dollar salaries and  pension  benefits that working families can never expect.  CARB is also in bed with organizations that  steer  many millions to the campaign coffers of the legislators.    Why  otherwise would the legislature  keep CARB alive and growing --- and rob the youth of California of the education they deserve?   When the state is bankrupt, teachers are losing their jobs,  millions are out of work,  and the legislature gives CARB billions of dollars to waste on its fraudulent  campaigns and regulate the working people  as if they are criminals spoiling the environment.  Of course,  CARB must manufacture a new "health crisis"  every year to justify its existence.

Here are some other CARB highlights:

• Reformulated Diesel Fuel:  Do you remember when CARB mandated that Diesel Fuel be reformulated without adequate testing in the 1990's? The new fuel  damaged  thousands of  diesel engines in the state and over  ten million  dollars of state funds were used to replace many of the damaged engines.  You the taxpayers and working people paid for this.  Bet your  legislators never told you about this.   But they fired  20,000 teachers in the state recently because they wasted your  tax dollars on fraud agencies  like CARB where they have placed their friends and political cronies on the payroll until the next election. 
• MTBE: Over $30 million paid out by working families over ten years for extra 20 to 30 cents a gallon.  Estimated $20 billion dollars more to clean up ground water around the state that is contaminated with MTBE.  CARB  has an army of  professional liar  "public information officers"  who spread the CARB propaganda  to keep the CARB  agency budget  growing every year.   They spent ten years lying to both the legislature and the public about the "benefits" of  MTBE in your gasoline.   Finally, the legislature had to ban MTBE in your gas when scientists proved that it was a poison to our environment and you.  The average working family was forced to pay out over eight thousand dollars over ten years for the MTBE poison in their gasoline in California.  (They would have over $12,000 in the bank today for their childrens' education if that money had been saved and invested). 
• Electric Car mandate: CARB set the American automotive industry back by ten years in developing hybrid cars because CARB would not allow them as zero emission or low emission cars while CARB insisted on demanding that 5% of cars in California had to be electric cars.   Only after they were forced to admit that the  electric cars were a fraud, did they allow hybrid cars. By that time the Japanese manufacturers were way ahead of America.  That has cost the American  workers in the auto industry over 200.000 jobs and crushed the industry.

A Speech by Tom McClintock

Links to other articles about CARB:

• Article: Chris Reed: Still shameful / Air board’s response to scandal is appalling
• Article: LOIS HENRY: Arrogance pollutes air board
  
• Article: Dan Walters: Air board's cover-up casts pall on diesel rules
• Article: The balancing act: Looking at the tip of the iceberg at CARB
• Article: The air board’s shame / Staff never revealed internal scandal before crucial vote
• The Spare the Air Debate: an Essay by Jesse Owings Kaposi
• An Essay by Jeff Lassle
• Article: LOIS HENRY: CARB can't ignore credibility problems
• Article: Sacramento Bee: Fiscal impact of state climate law disputed
• Article: Chris Reed: Jobless? Too bad
• News Release: Most CARB science-panel members have overstayed their terms of office, charges PLF lawsuit
• Article: CARB seeks comments on ‘SmartWay’ rule
• Article: John Dale Dunn M.D.: California Ignores Scientific Protests, Passes New Diesel Regulations
• Article: Chris Reed: Here's where the lead scientist got his degree. UPS, USC, UCLA -- what's the diff?
• Article: Chris Reed: Air board investigating whether lead scientist on diesel regs lied about his Ph.D.
• Article: Chris Reed: Air board officials knew of key scientist's deception before adopting sweeping diesel rules
• Article: The air board’s shame / Staff never revealed internal scandal before crucial vote
• Article: Leslie Eastman: California’s eco-bureaucrats hurt businesses (Part 1 of a 2 part series)
• Article: Leslie Eastman: CARB rules don’t address the real problems (Part 2 of a 2 part series)
• Article: Lois Henry: California Air Resources Board admits its lead researcher lied
• Article: Lois Henry: Dodgy science strangles industry