No More Dirty Oil Jobs

[eddiememphis]

https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2019/09/23/billgren-polis-anti-energy-road-show-shut-out-western-slope-voices-will-northern-colorado-get-same/

Biased towards energy jobs but an interesting take on the situation.

[Grant H.]

Yep.

Fawk Pole Smoker...

[Great-Kazoo]

Like CA, CO marches forward in to a carbon neutral delusion. That they "feel" will solve the problems of the minions.

[JohnnyDrama]

Y'all are blowing this out of proportion. All the drilling companies have to do is pay for carbon emission credits. Sort of like an indulgence against the church of green. It will be business as usual. We will end up paying for it.

[Gman]

...and those credits benefit our industrial competitors and really don't solve anything.

Profits on Carbon Credits Drive Output of a Harmful Gas (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/world/asia/incentive-to-slow-climate-change-drives-output-of-harmful-gases.html)

Chinese national carbon trading scheme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_national_carbon_trading_scheme)

China Is Dawdling on Carbon Trading (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-07/china-dawdles-on-carbon-trading-as-reshuffle-slows-development)

[Eric P]

This is a tax. Must be TABOR approved.

[Great-Kazoo]

This is a tax. Must be TABOR approved.

No it will be a FEE once the ink is dry. Figure another $75 per vehicle and trailer registration over 50 years. Naturally it will end up being spent on widening bicycle lanes and closing down Broadway & Lincoln in denver, as an experiment on reducing green house gases