The Global Warming Bill is an Economy Killer in Green Camouflage
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Wired is not known for being anything other than a liberally oriented magazine. It is extremely environmentally conscientious. The June 2008 issue has a whole section on global warming, including this tidbit:
The awful truth is that some amount of climate change is a foregone conclusion. The Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, calculates that even if the U.S., Europe, and Japan turned off every power plant and mothballed every car today, atmospheric CO2 would still climb from the current 380 parts per million to a perilous 450 ppm by 2070, thanks to contributions from China and India.
Undeterred, Harry Reid and the Democrats have decided to grind our economy to a halt to "solve" a problem the congress cannot solve even if the "turned off every power plant and mothballed every car today."
Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky argued that the bill's "cap and trade" approach to cutting carbon dioxide emissions would unleash "the largest restructuring of the American economy since the New Deal."
"It's a huge tax increase," he proclaimed even as the bill's supporters argued it actually would provide tax breaks for people who faced higher energy costs, and financial assistance to carbon intensive industries through a pollution allowance trading system.
Babs Boxer claims there will be no increase in gas prices, but she is lying. While the legislation does not mandate the price of gas increase, it does require such costly changes to the service station industry, the oil and gas industries, and elsewhere that the price will absolutely go up. And Barbara Boxer knows it.
There are things that can be done. We could be fostering an environment for technological changes. We could be encouraging nuclear energy. We are, in fact, doing nothing. This bill is nothing more than legislation designed to ruin our economy so government can insert itself further into business. The camouflage on the bill just happens to be green.
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We need to feature this and kill it. Stop it dead in its tracks. Make certain the meme "GREEN=TAXES" and "GREEN=UNEMPLOYMENT" is established.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
After all, McCain is one of the leading people behind a cap-and-trade carbon emissions proposal.
"Once within the maw of Leviathan, degree of digestion is irrelevant." - Michael Fisk
The IEA just released news that the world needs to spend 45 trillion by2050vor we'll have "widespread loss of species, famines and droughts, and swamping of heavily populated coastal areas by rising oceans...and that will only cut the problem in half.
This Congress will NOT, repeat NOT be outspent by the G-8...
If there's money to be thrown at a non-problem, by golly, we'll be doing the throwing.
Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus
You are a little too accurate. It wrecks the rest of the day ;-)
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus
There are things that can be done. We could be fostering an environment for technological changes. We could be encouraging nuclear energy. We are, in fact, doing nothing.
Has the GOP in Congress introduced a comprehensive proposal along these lines? Will the GOP platform this year contain such a comprehensive proposal?
Because I believe you can't fight something with nothing. In a time when the public is demanding change, just saying "NO" is not going to sell.
And when it comes to global warming, the GOP has tended to deny it's even a real phenomenon, hinting darkly at secret conspiracies among Al Gore and the world's scientists to cripple America with a big hoax.
It would be a major step forward for the GOP to abandon conspiratory theories and denialism, admit global warming is a serious environmental issue, and then make its own comprehensive counter-proposal that emphasizes nuclear power, maybe Solar Power Satellites, accelerating nuclear fusion research, etc.
Gingrich has already done a lot of homework on this. Sadly, instead of embracing his ideas, too many conservatives called him a "sellout" for even accepting the reality of global warming.
Live on the grounds of a nuclear power plant than having a gigantic orbiting microwave oven targeting me.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Start comparing Obama to Carter each time he compares you to Bush or the "3rd term of Bush" angle will be beat like a drum by Obama's friends in the media. Iran is not stronger with an emerging democracy on their doorstep. Carter is responsible for the creation of that evil state, and Obama is more like Carter than McCain is like Bush. SO LET THE PEOPLE KNOW!!!!!
It's a good thing we have John McCain running for President. He can help stop this.