"A Sheriffβs department deputy wasnβt entirely certain a crime has been committed, and stated: βIf we are looking into something, we need a victim. We donβt have a victim.β
"CHP officials seemed a bit more certain that some rules had been broken, including reckless driving and driving an off-road motorcycle on the highway. Though, really, this is sort of over a highway, right?"
"CHP officials were also concerned that they were unable to identify the rider conclusively, which would make proving even these misdemeanor charges difficult."
"In order to prevent anyone else from trying something this stupid, Caltrans blocked the access to the ramp with bulldozers pushing boulders and tree trunks."
"The truth is that while auto jobs used to be good jobs, we now have more in common with workers at McDonaldβs or Walmart. One-in-four of the 600 jobs at the Camaco plant are temporary positions that pay $10 an hour. Meanwhile, wages for all of the plantβs production workers are capped at just $12 an hour β with an 18-cent raise a year for a βliving fee.β I havenβt even received that raise this year. Temp workers are often kept in limbo for up to a year before being hired on full time. And turnover at the plant is off the charts, with a manager recently admitting that 1,500 workers have cycled through the plant in the last two years. The company has been forced to hire three temp agencies to find employees, recruiting workers from as far away as Cleveland."
The reason is simple: 2016 saw the most miles driven in a decade. A lot of motorist deaths is related to the number of miles driven. And for each extra mile driven there is a disproportionate number more of crashes and deaths.
"It's also easier to clean up, maintain and monitor one smokestack (the power plant's) than it is to do those things for a million smokestacks (all of our tailpipes). And even if you're charging your car from the dirtiest power plant, running on 100 percent coal, electric-car expert (and, to be fair, advocate) Jim Motavalli says you'd still reduce climate emissions by 30 to 40 percent over individual gasoline-powered cars."