Comments on: Gov. Writes to Obama: Stimulate Economy by Undercutting NEPA

By: John

John — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:51:54 +0000

I think we should go through with electric cars as a starter. This would make it more feasible for people to get to there jobs, start a new job market & with more jobs. I know this is an extreme idea, but we live in extreme times. If their going to re-do roads, put technology in the roads to keep up with the times and the new ones to come. I could see my grand child going somewhere without having to drive or get in an accident. If it means letting these companies go under ( like the big 3 ) so be it. There are hundreds of engineering entrepreneurs with great ideas and I’m sure investors who would jump at this idea. It’s time we stopped living on primitive fuel. It’s hard to stop living on something we’ve been living on for the last 100 years I know, but what choice do we have environmentally? When will it end?

By: John

John — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:24:57 +0000

I think we should lower and cap interest rates on credit cards or at least be able to claim them on our income tax returns like we use to do. This would help stimulate people to buy.

By: John Gallardo

John Gallardo — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:13:25 +0000

Correction on the date of previous post. CURRENT article

By: John Gallardo

John Gallardo — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:11:33 +0000

Now, 1-year after this article was written, We can see the economy, not just of California but of the entire country, doing a nosedive into depression. With that in mind it seems MORE important to LIFT or seriously curb these ridiculous environmental processes! (Many days and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to relocate snakes and bushes, com’on People!)

They are prime examples of an initially well-intentioned idea gone berserk. CEQA is now a monster (just like NEPA) that feeds on taxpayer dollars just to stay alive.

The only sensible thing to do at this time is LIFT or seriously curb CEQA AND NEPA!

Civil Engineer, CA

By: Corey Manila

Corey Manila — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:02:14 +0000

It is a tough road to be on, one that accomplishes the direction but doesn’t hurt the economy. Blank checks should never be given when it is the tax payers money.

By: J

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:15:55 +0000

NEPA and CEQA have had mixed results over the past 30+ years. They have imposed unbelievable amounts of delay on every transportation project pursued since 1970 and have opened the door to endless lawsuits by NIMBY groups. Every time an environmental document recommends something a group doesn’t like, they can just sue, claiming the thousand-page reports to be “inadequate.”

Major transportation projects that are vital to our livelihood such as the BART system and the SoCal freeway system NEVER could have been built with such stringent environmental requirements.

Environmental protection is important, but that is rarely what EIR’s and EIS’s end up being about.