Shut the fuck up and go crawl back into the Fox News bunker

Are you suggesting that China or Russia will be drilling for oil off of Californian’s coast? Bwahahahahaha.

This article of Carter’s linked in comment #5 is absolutely spectacular. Selenium poisoned wastelands turned into irrigated farms, operating for fifty years and counting, with no settled way at any point to dispose of the selenium poisoned runoff waste water! Giant corporate farms subsidized by taxpayers and paying less each year in taxes than a busy 7-11 in Fresno! It’s 38 pages, but if you care at all about California water, well worth reading.

“the state’s aqueduct system, which pumps rainwater and snow that melts hundreds of miles south,” South or north?

“It was the kind of delusional that only people in the grips of a speculative boom centered on the limitless possibilities of a technological revolution could believe in.” Delusion.

“a private water district that owns 9.62% the Kern bank” 9.62% of the Kern bank.

“mobile home inhabitin’” Wait, what?! Mobile home?! What happened to your McMansion rental?! Please tell us this story!

Not to mention its believed the coasts of Cali have up to 10 billion barrels of oil waiting to be tapped. Thats like an ANWAR size deposit But the liberals don’t want to drill for it because it will harm fish or something. If America won’t drill for it, China or Russia will and they won’t care about the enviroment. As a matter of fact they woudl pullute the crap out of our waters. They have no idea how much it will boost the state economy.

Oh well Cali is too populated by liberals. People use to look up to you Californians and wanted to be like you. Now everybody hates you and can’t wait for your downfall.

Yes, let them eat cake?

You literally have no idea how many solar panels it takes to power a desalination plant, the costs to save the ecosystem, the sheer amount of time and political will demanded from a state as ADD as California.

I agree. Government subsidies are a HUGE part of the problem. Eliminate them and you’ve taken a big chunk of profit out of the hands of the plutocrats.

Let the free market do its work. The cities AND the “farmers” (big agri biz) should pay the SAME MARKET PRICE for the water. No govt. intervention on EITHER SIDE and that will level the playing field.

IF there wasn’t any govt. intervention you wouldn’t have one side buying the water for cheap and selling it to the other party for higher prices.

“It subsidizes the rest of the country’s waste and govt programs. If they go completely belly up, we are screwed”

Actually that would mean more freedom for the rest of the country. The welfare queen GOP states would receive less fed govt. funds and would finally have to get up their lazy asses and build their own economies. The blue states would get to keep MORE of their OWN MONEY to spend on themselves instead of the Federal govt. taking it away and redistributing it to the lazy states that have high rates of poverty. Its a win win situation.

Maybe you Californians would keep billions of dollars more to build that rail road connecting Los Angeles to the Bay area. Too bad the lefties tax the sh8t out of everybody.

And yes, I disproportionately focus on making fun of libertarians because the alternative would be actually thinking of solutions to these problems, because, to quote Zizek, “I think, I sometimes, . . . have a strange paranoiac idea that maybe this crisis was manufactured so that people will see that even if there is a crisis, the left really doesn’t have a global answer.”

California is the largest state and gets .89 for every dollar it sends to Washington. It subsidizes the rest of the country’s waste and govt programs. If they go completely belly up, we are screwed

Sounds to me like they found a way around dealing with the problem of decaying infrastructure in America – by hoarding water and playing “money-market” with it, who needs pipes, or for that matter arsenic-free water? I mean who is ever going to drink it? (Of course, that’s also bad news for the civil and environmental engineering job market in California…)

As to Resnick, all I can say is: way to inspire people to embrace resource nationalization. (Or to kill those same people off when they do nothing – it’s hard to say which way Americans will turn when it’s this obvious there is a real gun pointed at their head. Should be interesting to watch… from afar.)