Opinion Blog Post

Article: Still ignoring the history-and risk- of AB 32; North County Times
Link: http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/still-ignoring-the-history-and-risk-of-ab/article  52301397-c4d0-5d80-a735-cbe6c9656960.html
 http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/editorial/still-ignoring-the-history-and-risk-of-ab/article_52e01397-c4d0-5d80-a735-cbe6c9656960.html

Summary of Author's point: Author feels that the state is paying heavy taxes for a type of  cleaner energy that the rest of the world has not adopted.

News worthiness: Last week, there was a cap-and-trade auction by the CA Air Resources Board to force major industries to reduce the amount of harmful gases into the environment.  "Last week, the California Air Resources Board had its first cap-and-trade auction of pollution credits, meant to use market forces to gradually push major industries to reduce the emission of gases which contribute to global warming"

The other side: The author briefly mentions the other side by stating that with the passing of the AB 32 Law in 2006, Gov. Brown feels that this is not a burden and that this law will help create jobs for Californians. (Since this is brief, the author does not want the reader to focus on this part of the article)

types of strategies:
1) Historical Precedent??: I believe this is historical precedent when the author talks about the fact that Gov. Schwarzenegger only signed this into law if there was a provision to allow a future Gov. to essentially cancel out this law if the economy was bad (which it is at the moment).

2) Facts: The author states that world is headed towards an era of using cheap fossil fuels, but the author does not give a source for their information. "Thanks to dramatic improvements in oil-extraction techniques, the U.S. is on track to be the world leader in oil production by 2020. With these techniques spreading to other nations, the planet appears headed for decades of cheap fossil fuels."

3) Forecasting: The author knows that this clean energy plan has failed and that the rest of the world did/will not follow a type of  AB 32. Knowing this the author poses a question that asks what will happen not this this plan has failed? "The rest of the world didn’t copy AB 32 and the Golden State. So what will our shift to cleaner-but-much-costlier energy portend? Just what Schwarzenegger and Chu feared: an economy with heavy unique costs not shared by rivals."