Environmentalists Kill Jobs In California

Strike another one up to the Environmentalists. In California the Enhanced Vapor Recovery System will force dozens of gas stations to close their doors. Do you think that the Enviro wackos care? Na, they only care about the myth of Global Warming. Sure is cold out here isn't it? I could use some warming right about now.

Among them is George Fasching, who after 31 years of selling gasoline at Fasching's Car Wash in Arcadia, stopped in December.

"I came to the decision that I was too small a volume operator to continue on with the expenses imposed by the bureaucracy of the state," Fasching said.

April's requirements would have cost him $35,000, he said. Fasching used to sell the gasoline as a convenience for his car wash customers, and blames the new regulations for forcing him to stop.

"It will have some effect on my business, but at least I have the relief that I don't have to deal with these people anymore," he said.

As of the end of December 2008, the South Coast Air Quality Management District had heard back from 3,109 of its 4,500 sites about EVR Phase II.

Seventy-six - or 2.4 percent - indicated they will be shutting down on April 1, 2009 rather than upgrade their sites, said Dimitri Stanich, public information officer for the California Air Resources Board.

Some 1,400 of the SCAQMD's sites have not yet responded. About 12,000 dispensing facilities will be affected statewide.

This is kind of like what Obamas rules on statewide MPG regulation will do, but that will close down Auto Manufacturing.