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California to require firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind

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Re: California to require firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind

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Yet another reason companies are fleeing California

Probably the only place on earth companies are fleeing even faster than Germany.

If they're full, it's a good thing. If we could get just 50,000 people to leave CA and go to a few swing states like PA and OH, it would be the end of the Republican party as we know it.

Re: California to require firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind

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Is there any reason to expect that these additional costs won't be passed onto California consumers? All the physical industry is moving out of California. Intel's last plant was moved out around what, 2008 (?). What do we think is going to happen? There is no magic. Companies raise prices and/or move out to the more favorable locations, including overseas (e.g. China, Vietnam, Mexico).

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Probably the only place on earth companies are fleeing even faster than Germany.

If they're full, it's a good thing. If we could get just 50,000 people to leave CA and go to a few swing states like PA and OH, it would be the end of the Republican party as we know it.

Don't people tend to change party when they move from cities to rural, and vice versa? So we could also end the Democratic party as we know it by convincing more people to move out of cities.

Re: California to require firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind

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Is there any reason to expect that these additional costs won't be passed onto California consumers? All the physical industry is moving out of California. Intel's last plant was moved out around what, 2008 (?). What do we think is going to happen? There is no magic. Companies raise prices and/or move out to the more favorable locations, including overseas (e.g. China, Vietnam, Mexico).

Yeah, regulations have costs and economies change over time, not exactly a news flash.

But California is one of the largest and most advanced economies in the world. The same is true of Germany, which has been getting the California treatment recently. And both are currently performing very well given the global context (inflation, energy) and have proven tremendously robust historically, which makes these constant declarations of doom and gloom especially suspicious to me.

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