In the diesel fuel business, it is all about pennies. Fifteen, twenty years ago a price increase of a penny was a big jump and there were sequences of days when fuel prices did not change. So, when I saw the video on the link below about the National budget it really struck a chord. I get pennies and often spend time on the far right side of the decimal but when you get up in the millions, billions and trillions frankly it is harder for me to conceptualize. I thought this would be a great way for my kids and their friends, not to mention my coworkers, to understand the numbers we are hearing about in the news.
What I did not expect is one of the responses I got back from a friend of mine. She requested that I not send her any more political emails. Now, I admit, I can get on my dad’s soap box and rant a bit with the occasional unsolicited opinion about the current world order. What a scary realization- I did not even notice a political bend to the video. If you click on the link it does show the President pledging to reduce the National budget by $100,000,000. My first response was applause and frankly, so was my last response. (Again I like pennies, so saving even a $0.0025 is good by me!) What my friend, who tends to lean a little more left then I do, saw in the first 15 seconds was an attack on the President and that framed her opinion of the video, not the remaining minute, twenty three seconds.
I have watched it a number of times and if it were done 3 years ago and the President at that time was featured in the first 15 seconds, I realize that I would have considered it political too. This would have been compounded by the fact that my leftward leaning brother-in-law is the one who shared it with me! It really is just a great learning tool. I am a huge fan of learning, but realize my genetic skepticism would have made me miss this opportunity too. What a great lesson for me about education. Information is good, regardless of who shares it with you. I still applaud budget cuts wherever we can get them, especially since we just sent in our latest donation to the state and federal government…. don’t even get me started….
http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/
My Best, Mary
Mary Fleet Manager Wall DeWitt, diesel, economic recovery, fleet, fuel price increases, petroleum, policy
Hi All
I had an opportunity to hear Meg Whitman speak yesterday. I was impressed. Yes, I know, she does not have the greatest voting record, but when Fortune 500 companies are hiring their next CEO I would hazard a guess that they don’t limit their search to people who buy their product. We need someone to step up and treat our state like a business. A business with a charitable side, but a business. One that is failing and needs to be turned around.
If you have an opportunity to hear Meg, I highly encourage you to go. She started on time, spoke briefly and then took questions. She did not ask for money. (Did I mention she started on time….) You can submit your email on her webpage and they will update you when she is in your area.
At a minimum, follow this link, http://www.megwhitman.com/policy_magazine_distribution.php, and read her plan. 48 pages, it can be read over a cup of coffee or two, on the treadmill, while sitting in traffic… ok skip the last one, but read it. Hiring, I mean electing, people so deeply entrenched, personally- a la the Governator- or professionally in politics is not working. Does it scare anyone that we may regurgitate Jerry Brown. I am horrified.
Then be sure to vote, for anyone you want but vote. Encourage friends, family, staff, and complete strangers to vote. This is the link to apply to vote by mail http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_m.htm Print it, hand it out, vote!
We don’t want to leave our children with our debts. We have to try something new.
My Best- Mary
Mary Fleet Manager Wall DeWitt, diesel, Governor, Los Angeles, Meg Whitman
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We may have seen the end of the recession, but many of our customers are still waiting on recovery. Regulations like AB 32, push the “American Dream” that much further away for many, especially those just entering the workforce. Taxes are increasing, budgets are nearly impossible to balance, and our leaders are swayed by special interest. I would like to see the same prosperity as my parents and their parents. I would like my future kids to do the same.
Do your part, contact your state and local representatives. Find your representative by going to http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/yourleg.html . You can contact them via their website. There is no time like the present to let them know how you feel.
My Best – Bobby
By Senator Bob Huff
Governor Schwarzenegger and 20 officials from his Administration were among the tens of thousands who recently flew to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend the much ballyhooed United Nations Climate Change conference. There, California leaders made speeches and attended meetings, often touting AB 32 – a law that requires a 25% reduction in state greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
The fact that California is the only state in the union to cap carbon emissions may be something to boast about in Denmark. Here at home, however, the cold hard reality of what AB 32 will mean to our state’s economy is beginning to set in.
In order to meet the lofty goals of AB 32, Californians will have to shoulder enormous expenses. A draft report by the California Economic and Allocation Advisory Committee (EAAC) says it could cost businesses and other entities that emit greenhouse gases between $48 billion and $143 billion to comply with AB 32’s strict mandates.
Earlier this year, a California State University Sacramento study predicted that the California Air Resources Board’s implementation of AB 32 would result in staggering costs to both businesses and families. That study was dismissed by environmental activists and others. But the EAAC was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger’s Secretary of Environmental Protection, Linda Adams, to advise the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on the economic impact of implementing AB 32. $48 to $143 billion is the government’s number, and thus harder to ignore.
In his “California’s Capitol” blog, Greg Lucas did some enlightening math, using estimates provided by Cal-EPA and CARB to the committee on the likely cost of allowances that would be exchanged among polluters in AB 32’s “cap and trade” system and applying them to the carbon dioxide emissions reported by a number of specific California businesses in 2008. Alstyle Apparel, a clothing manufacturer in Anaheim would have to pay between $540,000 and $1.6 million under cap-and-trade. ConocoPhillip’s Wilmington plant would have to spend between $40 million and $120 million.
These costs are enormous, and for many employers, prohibitive to doing business in California. Other states and even countries without these extra logistical and financial burdens, will attract more new business, and welcome businesses leaving California’s hostile regulatory climate. Even those who elect to remain in California will pass these costs down to the consumer, raising the cost-of-living on already struggling families.
Out of work Californians – and there are millions of them – can’t wait for phantom “green jobs” to appear some day. The climate change California’s leaders need to be working on is improving our state’s dismal business climate, and we should start by suspending AB 32.
Bobby Fleet Manager Wall
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