I have previously written about the California Air Resources Board and their fanatic director, Mary D. Nichols, who was appointed by our famous Governor Katzenjammer. This is the woman who commissioned a study on diesel particulate matter by a man with a fraudulent resume.
http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2010/01/california-air-resources-board-expert.html
Even though Nichols became aware of the fraudulent nature of her "scientist", she withheld that information from her board members until after they had approved new legislation on diesel vehicles based on that fraudulent study. Here is one result. The San Diego Blood Bank Foundation, a private non-profit group that has serviced some 150,000 people with blood in 2010 alone, must now spend at least one million dollars to re-fit and then replace their bloodmobiles.
As a result of new legislation arising from the aforementioned study, this foundation in San Diego now has one year to re-fit 7 out of their 8 diesel bloodmobiles-and replace them by 2015. The immidiate cost of re-fitting them this year will be one million d0ollars.
When they appealed to CARB, they were told that there were no exemptions for emergency vehicles.
There there we have it. Arnold Katzenjammer appoints this environmental wacko from UCLA to head CARB; Fraudulent scientists; fraudulent study; cover-up and draconian legislation on anyone operating diesel engine vehicles.
But hey! Who needs bloodmobiles when you're saving the planet?
Bllod transfusions won't cure emphysema.
ReplyDeleteAh, excellent point, Siarlys! You have completely debunked everything I said.
ReplyDeleteI certainly put it in perspective. Mobile blood collection vans should NOT have to take action which might save lives, because it would cost money? Yes, blood transfusions ALSO save lives. Perhaps hospitals should be authorized to dump infectious wastes in ravines near low income neighborhoods, untreated, because it costs more money to sterilize it or contract with a disposal service able to do so?
ReplyDeleteDo you think that the SD County Blood Foundation has a million dollars to pay for the intitial refitting? They will probably have to go out of business thanks to this insane regulation, which has been proven to be based on a fraudulent study by some guy with a piece of paper from a diploma mill.
ReplyDeleteThink of this in terms of "free market" principles Gary. Is there a demand for blood? Yes there is. Will the necessary investment emerge to fill that demand? Most certainly.
ReplyDeleteIf that million dollars is a legitimate cost of collecting blood in a manner that does not simultaneously cost the lives and health of people suffering from asthma, emphysema, etc., then it should be paid. Otherwise, you are trading the lives of people with vulnerable lungs to save the lives of people who need blood transfusions.
Siarlys, what California Sate agency do you work for?
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