An aside: This country is damn lucky that enough Democrats in Washington over the past few years got nervous enough about throttling our economy or their constituent's jobs that most of the anti-industrial fantasies never made it out of Congress.

We're not so lucky in California. "Cap and trade" starts in January, with an estimated billion dollars in new taxes flowing the first year to the eager grasping hands in Sacramento.

There aren't enough offset credits to balance the taxes, which will result in huge cost penalties to industries that stay here, but then the taxes were the whole point in the first place. Watch what happens. Some industries can move. Agriculture, already on the ropes in the Central Valley, can't.