As reported here, Saying Seattle must lead the world in battling the globe-warming gases that spew from our cars and furnaces and power plants, Mayor Greg Nickels today will unveil the most comprehensive plan to date to reduce Seattleites' impact on the climate.
The plan amounts to a call for everyone who lives here -- along with the city's businesses -- to change how they get around and how they heat and light their homes and offices. It could mean charging tolls for using certain roads, additional taxes on parking and other measures to encourage people to get out of their cars and use mass transit.
The 34-page list of actions Nickels is proposing range from the very specific -- spending $530,000 over the next two years to save natural gas in city buildings, for instance -- to aspirations whose outcome the city can't control, such as persuading the Legislature to follow California's lead and cap so-called "greenhouse gases."
The basic message: Seattle can do this. And so can the world.
"We can make a difference," Nickels said.
Boy, oh boy. Talk about your delusions of grandeur! While clean air is something desirable, most of the provisions put forth by the Mayor would cost tax payers more money through taxes, and clamp down on the business community through onerous regulations resulting in lost jobs, which in turn would lower tax revenue, which in turn would increase state cut backs in "essential services".
The Mayor goes on to talk about "the struggle with climate change", when in fact he meant "global warming" (a pet theme of his). As I've said before, and I'll say it again, climate change has always occurred, and will continue to do so, whether we take any steps "to halt global warming", or not.
Our Mayor is getting more delusional by the week!
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