Rossputin.com Rational Thinking About Our World

PUBLISHED in the LA Times, 4/30/07
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/letters/la-le-monday30.4apr30,0,7267859.story?

re "Schwarzenegger administration to sue EPA over air standards" (LA Times, 4/25/07)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-ex-greenhouse042507,0,7755086.story?

To the Editor:

While California is heading down an economically treacherous path with its Kyoto-like laws, the EPA should grant the state a waiver to the Clean Air Act. The principle of federalism, on which our republic is based, is to allow each state to act as a laboratory of democracy, letting states experiment with their own regulatory paradigms and having states learn from each others’ successes and failures.

So while the EPA would be doing Californians a favor by keeping them from enacting laws which are close to economic suicide (or at least economic masochism), the long-term success of our nation requires that we let states make mistakes. Even though California will probably suffer real self-inflicted damage for getting caught up in the junk-science of global warming, the EPA should just get out of the way.