Linked at Bread upon the Waters.

So come on over! Texas is glad to have any business that wants to pull up stakes and head over here!

Oh, and besides lower energy costs, taxes are a lot lower too! And so is cost of living in general. Funny how all those things just kind of go together, must be one of them weird coincidences nobody can figure out.

Here in California, there are several issues to consider: 1) we have a lot of people in the state, so what we do and how we use our fuels imacts the whole country; 2) we moved away from liquid fuels for electric generation and switched to clean burning and more efficient natural gas; 3) unfortunately for Californians, we moved away from being a manufacturing state and became a service based economy; thus consuming less fuels (our per capita use is very low relative to the rest of the U.S.).

Except for public policy, which is driving out business (and thereby reducing our carbon footprint), the main driver for lower CO2 emissions is capitalism. Fuels are very expensive, so the companies that are more efficient in their fuel use, emit less CO2, and wind up making more money.

Unfortunately for all U.S. citizens, our political masters seem to prefer the European model, i.e. tax the hell out of fuels and make manufacturing uncompetitive (vis-a-vis China & India) all to achieve a lower carbon footprint. Hello, we are already there!

Obviously, China and India aren’t going to shoot themselves in the foot, but our political masters seem ready, willing, and able to do so. Thank goodness we have a media that is willing to expose the truth. Oh I forgot, they’re not.