CCD Editor’s Note: California’s major West Coast cities are turning into third-world countries (at 13:45 mark) due to drug-addled homeless people and mentally ill vagrants living and excreting on public property. Mayors have told the police to stand down, turning these cities into magnets. Many restaurants are struggling to keep them away from their entrances. So what do they do about it? Charge customers in restaurants to fight…global warming. #
People eating at California restaurants may notice a new fee on their bill – a small surcharge to support efforts to fight climate change.
Restaurants across the state can choose to opt-in to add a 1% charge on diners’ bill to help support the Restore California Renewable Restaurant program.
According to the program, the fee will go into California’s Healthy Soil Carbon Fund. It will also help pay farmers $10 per ton of carbon [dioxide] removed from the atmosphere to help them transition to renewable farming practices.
“Restore California closes the economic loop between producers and consumers, creating a renewable food system,” according to a description of the program on its website.
Customers can decline to pay the fee if they tell their servers to remove it.
Anthony Myint, the founder of the nonprofit Perennial Farming Initiative, the group launching the program, told KTVU-TV that climate change is a “massive” issue.
“This issue of climate change is obviously massive, and future generations don’t have the chance to opt out,” Myint said. “We as chefs want to do the right thing, and shopping organic and at farmers markets doesn’t really feel like enough.”
Myint said that if every restaurant in the state participated, it would raise $1 billion annually and if 1 in 100 participated, $10 million would be raised annually.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that organizers hope to enlist 200 restaurants statewide by the end of the year and that the program is expected to begin in the fall.
Myint’s restaurant, Mission Chinese in San Francisco, has been adding a 3% surcharge to bills for the last six months, KGO-TV reported.
It takes about 10 to 15 cents per diner to offset the restaurant’s carbon footprint. The business has raised about $18,000, which is given to sustainable farming projects.
Read more at US News & World Report
A very big scam, because against climate change it is impossible to fight. How clumsy we are men! That stubbornness in combating climate change is going to cause millions of deaths.
You can be certain that I, for one, will not be going to California.
What a bunch of morons.
As some ignorant female member of Congress recently said about Israel, it’s all about the “Benjamins”. These people just want money for their own livelihood and has nothing to actually do with the environment.
I’m doing my bit to save the planet … never go again to California .
Wonder how the waiters feel when their tips go down for virtue signalers .
What is the matter with these people ? Kind of poetic justice.. open sewer streets deteriorating infrastructure and massive traffic jams… but at least they are trying to control the earth’s temperature .
California is all about image and it’s getting old real fast .
So now they want a 1% Fee at Restruant’s all over something that’s only in the minds of Al Gore the various Hollywood phonies and with the various Eco-Wacko groups i understand the Golden State its a illegal to detonate a Nucular Device in Chico CA they will fine you $500 just more Stupidity on the left coast
If 10 to 15 cents per diner to offset the restaurant’s carbon dioxide footprint was adequate then anthropological climate change would be such a big deal. Yes, it is a fraud, but even so the measures advocated to fight it would be inexpensive. What the 10 to 15 cents per diner is probably for is to reduce the emissions from the soil. It is unlikely that it includes the emissions of the farm machinery, transport and processing of the food, electricity used by the restaurant, and fuel used by those to get to the it.
This is another example of a “feel good solution.” Such solutions are common with liberals. Even if anthropological climate change were a real problem, the restaurant surcharge would have an immeasurable impact. Yet, it serves it purpose. It permits those supporting the fee to feel good that they are doing something about what they are worried about. On a much large scale, it is the same with the Paris Treaty. Even if climate change were a real problem, this is treaty would not even come close to addressing a real solution. In addition, on the scale of the Paris Treaty multiple agendas are supported that are hitch hiking on the climate change movement. A few of these is an excuse of new taxes, tight government control over our lives, and socialism.
This is another example of a “feel good solution.” Such solutions are common with liberals. Even if anthropological climate change were a real problem, the restaurant surcharge would have an immeasurable impact. Yet, it serves it purpose. It permits those supporting the fee to feel good that they are doing something about what they are worried about. On a much large scale, it is the same with the Paris Treaty. Even if climate change were a real problem, this is treaty would not even come close to addressing a real solution. In addition, on the scale of the Paris Treaty multiple agendas are supported that are hitch hiking on the climate change movement. A few of these is an excuse of new taxes, tight government control over our lives, and socialism.
This is another example of a “feel good solution.” Such solutions are common with liberals. Even if anthropological climate change were a real problem, the restaurant surcharge would have an immeasurable impact. Yet, it serves it purpose. It permits those supporting the fee to feel good that they are doing something about what they are worried about. On a much large scale, it is the same with the Paris Treaty. Even if climate change were a real problem, this is treaty would not even come close to addressing a real solution. In addition, on the scale of the Paris Treaty multiple agendas are supported that are hitch hiking on the climate change movement. A few of these is an excuse of new taxes, tight government control over our lives, and socialism.
This is another example of a “feel good solution.” Such solutions are common with liberals. Even if anthropological climate change were a real problem, the restaurant surcharge would have an immeasurable impact. Yet, it serves it purpose. It permits those supporting the fee to feel good that they are doing something about what they are worried about. On a much large scale, it is the same with the Paris Treaty. Even if climate change were a real problem, this is treaty would not even come close to addressing a real solution. In addition, on the scale of the Paris Treaty multiple agendas are supported that are hitch hiking on the climate change movement. A few of these is an excuse of new taxes, tight government control over our lives, and socialism.
This reminds me of the fuel surcharge that Airlines charge. The price of fuel returned to normal, but the surcharge stayed as a ticket fee, So clever.
If these idiots think the enviroemnt was cleaner back in the Horse and Buggy Days then their living in Lala Land I can still remember their Fight Pollution Get a Horse what their forgetting is Horses produced waste(Manure)and its just dont up and vanish the lies about man made Pesticide like DDT and stuff life CFC’s which were all banned because of Junk Science,Sloppy research and lies . get the book Eco-Freaks and read it