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Posted on 12/05/2007 4:46:23 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Senate panel OKs global warming bill
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago
Democrats turned back repeated efforts by Republican senators to soften the economic impact of a global warming bill before advancing it out of a Senate committee on Wednesday.
It was the first bill calling for mandatory U.S. limits on so-called greenhouse gases to be taken up in Congress since global warming emerged as an environmental issue more than two decades ago. The bill was approved 11-8 by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
GOP critics of the bill argued that limiting greenhouse gas emissions could become a hardship because of higher energy costs.
But Sen. John Warner of Virginia, a Republican co-sponsor who gave the bill legitimacy among many moderate GOP senators, called it "a chance to give America our opportunity ... to be counted on this very very important issue."
"We now move to the Senate floor," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., who along with Warner had introduced the legislation.
The bill calls for the United States to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by 2050 from electric power plants, manufacturing and transportation.
It would create a "cap-and-trade" system whereby companies would have pollution allowances that they could sell if they went below the emission limits, or buy if they found they could not meet the requirements.
The trading is aimed at reducing the economic impact of putting limits on carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, the leading greenhouse gas.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the committee's chairwoman, called the legislation "historic."
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Warner sure has been doing an awful lot of toe-tapping with the Lefties these days.
On practically everything!
They must be insane. It is a form of insanity if they think that CO2 increases temperatures when in fact temps increase first and CO2 lags behind by up to 800 years or more.
Truly a form of collective madness has gripped the masses.
Hold on to your wallets, indeed. As if our one little country is going to put and end to global warming.
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Vote the bastRATs OUT!!!!
Did they name it the Al Gore Enrichment Act of 2007?
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So now, like with immigration, we are forced to contact our representatives and slap them down again and tell them how to vote on the floor.
Get your e-mails, faxes, phones ready.
Historically Stupid
The "leading" greenhouse gas. What the heck does that mean? Water vapor dwarfs it in both quantity and effect. But I suppose to be "leading", it has to be something that relates to the story-line.
It means it's better than Avis rent-a car.
Leo C I agree it is time for a second revolution, GET OUT AND VOTE THESE MENTAL PATIENTS OUT!
Lunacy.
Next their going to put up legislation to ban lightning.
Any limits the U.S. puts on greenhouse gases aren’t going to effect the Earth’s climate one bit. Why is it always the U.S. that’s expected to pay the price for pollution? The Clean Air Act was passed back in the early 1970’s. These people will never be satisfied.
“Warner sure has been doing an awful lot of toe-tapping with the Lefties these days.”
It’s his last term. Doesn’t matter to him what he does. These people only care when they might get voted out of office. The future consequences of his actions for the country are no concern of his.
Cap-and-trade disguises the cost of this lunacy. The cost will be embedded in everything we buy. A straight-up, flat-out carbon tax would at least expose Americans to the actual cost of this scam. This way, the cost of compliance will be indistinguishable from general inflation. As was said earlier, “hold onto your wallets.”
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