Oh, please, please, introduce that bill. Let’s see who will co-sponsor.
PROVE IT FIRST!
Personally I would love to see a bill introduced that would tax people like Gore and Edwards for their energy uses. They claim to be for cleaner air but use more energy than 12 average people. The bill would read something like this: If you own a home worth x amount of dollars and spend X amount on energy(this amount would be determined by apraising Gore’s home and Edward’s home and adding up their energy cost)you would have to pay twice that amount in taxes yearly, no exceptions. I would love to see Gores face and listen to him spin! Also, all movie stars who earn more than 1 million a picture would have to pay 50 percent of their income(on top of IRS payments)to the government to offset their energy uses. We would see a retreat on GW that would blot out the sun with the dust. I don’t see why Republicans won’t do things like this and stop the insanity.
The mood of the country now is mad at Congress and the people has seen just how out of touch these demonrats really are.
So please please Dingel just introduce the bill and the American people will cut off the balls of every democrat in 2008 (including Hillary's too I hope!) for creating this cruel burden on the country.
What most people are only now just waking up to realize is the while damm stupid implementation of the Ethanol for fuel - all in the name of Global Warming scare.
As I was explaining to someone recently that
1) growing corn to get ethanol is barely break-even in terms of the amount of energy you put in vs what you get out
2) if you put 10 gallons of ethanol in an ethanol burning car vs the same amt of gasoline in an identical car that burns regular gasoline, when their fuel runs out the ethanol burner will have stopped 2/3 of the way
3) Using corn as the grain to get ethanol is a very poor choice since its now competing directly with food & feed for livestock (chickens, pigs, cattle, etc) and as a result all foods are now costing from 20-50% more than they did last summer.
So every time you go to buy groceries and see just how little you are getting for your money, just thank Al Gore and his Global Warming disciples for the ethereal sense of comfort of saving the Earth (and your hungry bellies) since your high grocery bill is helping to fight Global Warming.
Also, as the leader of this movement and OWNER of the CARBON OFFSETS Business he is entitled to get rich off it and do as he please RIGHT?
If only the Republicans had the political instinct and common sense to see the opportunity Dingell is offering here. If only the Republicans had brains. If only the Republicans were... Republicans.
A few are. Not many. Most are whimps, wusses and boring spineless beaurocrats. Too bad. There was a time when I had high hopes for the Republican Party.
I still vote for them — I’d rather vote for the Stupid Party than the Evil Party any day — but my high hopes (with a few exceptions) are long gone.
Is anyone ever going to run the numbers on this ridiculous charade? There are six or seven billion people in this world, and they all burn something every day of their lives.
Who really thinks a dent can be made in that?