Stop everything: California has a major crisis on its hands

The State of California has some pretty serious problems. Never mind the $19 billion budget shortfall, furloughed workers, the decaying state of education, illegal immigration or having to do more with less when it comes to emergency services. That’s not the state’s biggest problem, if you were to look at the Capitol buzz. Never mind the fact that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he wouldn’t sign a budget if the legislators won’t send him a responsible plan and make it the next governor’s problem. That’s not a big deal compared to what’s brewing.

Here’s the big concern: gas clips. State administrators want them removed from gas pumps. You know, the clips on gas pumps that keep the pump running so you don’t have to hold the handle in place while your car fills and you can do something else. That’s a pretty big concern in Sacramento because there have been a whopping 10 spills reported over the past year because of the clips not disengaging when a tank filled.

Ten spills. There are around 37 million people in California, and as the Atlantic points out, that’s a 0.000001 percent failure rate. But that’s 0.000001 percent too much, and our protectors in Sacramento are on the case.

Get a life people, and go to work on the state’s real problems. Maybe there are too many people employed by the state if they have to sit around come up with make-work projects like this to have something to do.