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Implementation of any sort of cap and trade regulation in
California promises to increase our already-nation's-worst
unemplyment, raise our already-high gasoline and electric utility
costs, and increase the rate at which businesses choose to leave
(or simply not come to) our fair state.

While the issue of global climate change is important and should be
given due attention, we in California simply cannot afford a
Quixotic attempt to halt carbon emissions at our borders.  We live
in a large nation along with 49 other state economies, and in a
very flat international economy where we are required to compete
against other nations which are not burdened with our cost of labor
or regulations, much less an internationally-unique burden like cap
and trade. 

I suppose CARB has the administrative power to make this
regulations happen.  The sad fact is that if you choose to do so,
you will find yourself exercising more and more control over fewer
and fewer people, with a smaller and smaller budget due to
ever-declining tax revenues.  And all that will be your fault, for
failing to understand your place in a much larger universe.