The basic premise of AB32 fails a grade-school math test
By: Kelly Gorton
11.2.2010
According to T.J. Rodgers, the founder and CEO of Cypress Semiconductor. "I know firsthand about green jobs. SunPower Corp., a company I chair and the second-largest U.S. producer of solar cells, has produced about 800 green jobs in California. But that's just a fraction of the 4,700 jobs lost when Toyota pulled the plug on its local Nummi automotive plant due to the high cost of doing business in California." The basic premise of AB32 fails a grade-school math test. The latest EPA figures show that total U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2007 were 5.98 gigatons, of which California contributed 0.40 gigatons. If California had held its carbon dioxide emissions to its 1990 level of 0.36 gigatons, as AB32 mandates by 2020, the 2007 U.S. carbon dioxide emission figure would have been 5.94 gigatons, rather than 5.98 gigatons. For this our state government has chosen to terminate the jobs of 1.1 million Californians (the impact estimated by the California Small Business Roundtable) on top of existing unemployment.
I know firsthand about green jobs. SunPower Corp., a company I chair and the second-largest U.S. producer of solar cells, has produced about 800 green jobs in California. But that's just a fraction of the 4,700 jobs lost when Toyota pulled the plug on its local Nummi automotive plant due to the high cost of doing business in California. The full article is available on WSJ.com. PRI has also been working hard to cover this issue. Ben Zycher, Ph.D., PRI senior fellow, wrote a report on the relationship between Prop 23 and employment. The report is available here.
Prop 23, AB32, SunPower, Cypress Semiconductor, California, energy, environment, unemployment, emissions, election
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