Posted on 12/05/2007 5:05:57 PM PST by RDTF
A U.S. Senate committee has passed landmark legislation aimed at combating global warming by limiting carbon dioxide emissions. The vote was timed to coincide with the U.N. conference on climate change taking place in Bali, Indonesia. VOA's Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill.
The bill would set caps on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from electric utility, transportation and manufacturing industries beginning in 2012 with the goal of cutting emissions 60 percent by 2050. It would create an incentive system that would give credits to industries that cut pollution. Industries that failed to reduce emissions would be forced to buy credits from others.
The Democratic-led Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11 to eight, largely along party lines, to send the measure to the full Senate for what supporters hope will be action early next year.
"We are facing a crisis that will hit our children and our grandchildren the hardest if we do not act now. Not to act would be wrong, cowardly, and irresponsible," said Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, chairwoman of the committee.
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Great, now hold on to your wallet!
60% cuts in emissions will kill the economy. Hell, it will kill western civilization.
The day that Al Gore decreases his emissions by 60% is the day that I might give a crap about this issue.
“... reduce ... carbon dioxide emissions ...”
Does this mean I have to stop breathing ..??
Hmmmm ..?? When Clinton was president .. the senate voted 99 against the Kyoto Treaty .. and now that the dems are in power .. and they HATE-Bush .. they want to stick it to the USA. These people are really crazy.
Idiots.
The scary thing, is that the way things are going in this world (another sniper taking out the sheep today), it could happen..
lol
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20071205155935.aspx
Global Warming Vote on Snowy Day in Washington
Senate committee debates expensive climate change bill as two inches of snow blanket D.C.
By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
12/5/2007 4:44:51 PM
Nothing inspires taking on the “planetary emergency” of global warming like the first snow of the winter in Washington, D.C.
As two inches of snow accumulated outside the U.S. Capitol, the Senate’s Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee debated “historic” global warming legislation sponsored by Sens. John Warner (R.-Va.) and Joe Lieberman (I.-Conn.).
“We look around right now and see the snow on the trees – standing out here and say ‘Where is global warming when you need it?’” Sen. James Inhofe (R.-Okla.) said to the Business & Media Institute.
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Get all of the illeal aliens outa here, and watch CO2 emissions REALLY DROP!!!!
Emmissions will stay the same or increase—we will just be taxed to death to expunge our collective guilt. I might feel better about the whole thing if the $$ were going to shore up our defense or even to save Social Security & Medicare. However, the $$ from the Global Warming scam will go to fund every UN bureaucrat’s crackpot scheme.
This won’t get anywhere before 2009. Bush will veto it.
Ha! This is just electioneering. They don’t have to actually do anything until 2050. As if any of these clowns will be alive, much less in office.
Apparently, the majority of the senate are idiots. I know, I know, no new ground there. I wonder if GWB has a horse he could sent them. You know, a new senator from California.
The Democratic party as made itself the vanguard of lunatic environmental extremism. It is both good politics and vitally important for our nation’s future that the Republicans stand firm against this mindless army of Gore-bots.
The solution is simple. They should confiscate Al Gore's voracious house under "Eminent Domain"--- and use it to power the rest of America.
landmark = VERY VERY BAD.
Always the worst bills and supreme court rulings are “landmark”.
More like “disaster scene marker”.
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