Comments on: Schwarzenegger's Green Challenge

California Governor Says He'll Stick To Environmental Plans, Despite Economic Crisis

[recallarnold]

The opening line, "The more difficult it is, the more joy I find in it." The more difficult he makes it for us, the more pain he causes us. I''m glad to be one of his royal subjects here for his personal amusement. What an idiot!
I hope CBS comes back in a few months to see what his approval rating is then, if he still has a job.

[madalpha1]

Dear Scott Pelley,

I am very tried of the lazy reporting done on the California budget crisis. You clained that both the Democrats and Republicans rejected Governor Arnold''s budget proposal. That may be true in that the Democrats did not accept it entirely, but to lump the Democratic legislaors in as equal culprits to the obstructionist Republican legislators is miss representing the nature of the budget problems in California.

After your report was filmed, the Democrats brought a plan very similar to the Governors to the floor for a vote. It was rejected by every Republican.

Your lazy reporting has left the impression that the entire legislature is unwilling to compromise and find middle ground. This is baltantly untrue and deserves to be correct on your program.

[sbrobert]

What a puff piece on a lightweight with no courage and no convictions.

Schwarzenegger''s first act in office was to cut the Vehicle License Fee by $4 billion/year. Then asked for and got a $16 billion bond measure to pay for the first four years of this cut.

This simultaneously rewarded people who bought expensive new gas guzzlers. And, helped start the snowballing deficit we are stuck with now.

He mocked "the politics of guilt" with regard to environmental solutions. He said all we need is technological solutions and no change in behavior or lifestyle.

Rubbish!

I come from the world of technology for thirty years and he could not be more wrong.

We spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year in the US subsidizing Forced Automobile Dependency. Google "America''s Autos on Welfare" for the documentation.

If we spent a fraction of that on high-speed rail and on visionary public transportation, we can escape this drudgery of Forced Automobile Dependency.

It does not matter what cars are powered by. One third of Americans cannot drive and they are stranded here. We still will destroy habitat for sprawl.

And you will spend a third of your work life either stuck in those traffic jams or earning the money to pay to be stuck in those traffic jams.

Schwarzenegger is not part of the solution. He is a key part of the problem. The sooner we get rid of this ignorant buffoon the better.

[cynic3]

The budget is a mess. It''s being held captive by the minoirty in this state. A governor with leadership abilities would of whipped his party minions into shape and had it settled by now.

[debinok1]

Another sucker fighting for the billions of dollars in grant money for the hogwash global warming hype. All that melting ice in greenland shows that it wasnt always ice, they found evidence that people lived there and grew food, the climate has shifted many times and it will do it again, it doesnt need billions in grant money thrown at it to make it happen, and we cant stop it.

[cariboubarbi]

Good for Arnold sticking to his green plans. He''s one of the few forward thinking Republicans out there. Maybe he can lead the party back to it''s senses.

[ksaey3dog]

Please. This governor is not what he appears to be-green? eco-friendly? Maybe he should pay more attention to the mess he made with the state economy and how he is trying to balance the state budget on the backs of public school children. Please! No more about how clever he is. We can''t stand him or his politics. Don''t turn him loose on the rest of the country. He has really harmed California and it will take years for us to bounce back from his lack of clear vision or grasp on what California needs and wants.

[ksaey3dog]

Please. This governor is not what he appears to be-green? eco-friendly? Maybe he should pay more attention to the mess he made with the state economy and how he is trying to balance the state budget on the backs of public school children. Please! No more about how clever he is. We can''t stand him or his politics. Don''t turn him loose on the rest of the country. He has really harmed California and it will take years for us to bounce back from his administration.

Arnold isn''t the brightest bulb on the tree.
He gets joy from making tough decisions, like cutting off benefits for people on disability, and providing aid to illegal aliens, like his wife tells him to do. Arnold needs to becomes the Democrat he always wanted to be.

[goodsgoods1]

We''ll see the economic effects of these policies soon enough.

[uranus-x]

I wrote to Arnold to remind him the MEG is the only true energy technology. You''ve never had to pay a cent for energy; yet, this primarily significant technology is repressed by your own government.

You can see the patent for a version of this device here: http://www.cheniere.org/references/MEG_Patent.pdf

Will the fed declassify MEG and scalar wave technology? Why doesn''t CBS news ask this question?

[downtowner97]

Fantastic interview. That''s a real Republican. Going green makes jobs and clean air. Clean air is responsible, it''s family friendly, and it''s good for national security. We need money to defend our interests and our borders, and illness caused by burning fossil fuels costs this country a bundle.

The interviewer got something wrong about Ahnold''s Hummer. It did not need to be converted to run on biodiesel. ANY diesel engine will run on biodiesel right off the lot with no modification. Biodiesel made from Algae will free us from our dependence on oil, will create millions of jobs, and will lead to cleaner air.

Thanks, Ahnold!