XPost: alt.politics.economics, alt.california, sac.politics   
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   From: governor.swill@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:39:15 -0700, "Wayne"    
   wrote:   
      
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   >"$15 An Hour! Snicker..."  wrote in message   
   >news:54d1e2afac4fd6e6db7bf1c3f187cf86@dizum.com...   
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   >>After handing out close to $300 million in rebates for   
   >>purchasers of low- and zero-emission vehicles, state regulators   
   >>spotted a nettlesome trend -- much of the money ended up in the   
   >>pockets of upper middle class and wealthy homeowners.   
   >   
   >>Did the state really need to subsidize owners of gleaming new   
   >>Volts and Teslas and BMW i3s?   
   >   
   >>"If somebody is going to buy a top-line Tesla," said Dave   
   >>Clegern, spokesman for the California Air Resources Board, "they   
   >>may not need the help."   
   >   
   >LOL.  And sooner or probably later these regulator monkeys are going to   
   >realize that there is a bigger carbon footprint for electric vehicles   
   >(sometimes known as "coal powered" vehicles.   
      
   Reducing coal use is a global trend.  The Chinese have cut their coal   
   consumption by 30% over the past decade.  No mean feat when you factor   
   in growth.  In the US, there simply is not the demand there was and   
   now Peabody has gone belly up.   
      
   Swill   
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   The biggest data leak in history.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers   
   https://panamapapers.icij.org/   
   http://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-idUSKCN0X10C2   
   http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/03/what-you-need-to-kno   
   -about-the-panama-papers   
   http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35918844   
      
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