Californians Will Have the Chance to Kill AB32

AB32 is a terrible "green jobs" law passed in California that purports to fight global warming but will actually fight prosperity for Californians.  Now voters will have a chance to put AB32 out of our misery:

Leaders of a drive to suspend California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law claim they will submit enough voter signatures Monday to place the issue before voters.

The California Jobs Initiative Campaign will submit more than the required 435,000 voter signatures to qualify for the November ballot, spokeswoman Anita Mangels said.

"We're headed to the ballot," she said.

The campaign targets Assembly Bill 32, pushed four years ago by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislative leaders to require California to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

The proposed initiative would suspend AB 32 until the state's unemployment level drops to 5.5 percent for at least a year.

The signature-gathering campaign has been led, in part, by a Texas-based oil firm, Valero, and by Occidental Petroleum and the conservative Adam Smith Foundation.
Opponents of AB 32 contend its implementation could be financially devastating to the state's fragile economy.

"Voters have a right to have a say in whether the the state is going to risk a million jobs, or more, and to spend billions of dollars on programs that will not have any impact on global warming," Mangels said.

The notion that "green jobs" are going to save California's economy is a myth. The technology simply isn't there yet to produce the energy we need through alternative energy sources. And when alternatives are proposed, like solar arrays in the desert, some Democrat gets in the way of that because horny toads may be inconvenienced. They claim to want alternative energy without actually allowing it when it's proposed.

AB32 needs to die, and given the economic mess that California is in right now, odds are we'll never see 5.5% unemployment rates again.