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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Just like that! Wow! They pass legislation, problem solved, run home and tell the voters how they accomplished something “meaningful”. And the voters now know why they are out of work and the economy is tanking. Just like the boat builders when the demos passed a soak the rich tax.
Start THERE Senators - lead by example - and no carbon credit payoffs to Algore and the Demonrat party allowed.
2012 - that’s when the Aztec calendar says the world ends. So, the world doesn’t end with a bang, it ends when the lights go out because to meet the CO2 goals the Dims turn off the power plants.
Can you imagine if the Dems, the socialist pacifists win the Presidency and the Congress, thus appointing 3-4 SCOTUS jurists? Socialism will replace capitalism and libery in a matter of 8 years.
He is clearly a slob!!! How does he find anything? lol.
This bill is cowardly.
We couldn’t build nuke plants fast enough to make this a reality.
How do you cut CO2 emmisions without cutting combustion? I’m an engineer but can’t figure it out. CO2 is a result of complete combustion (whereas other pollutants like NOx or SOx are a result of other factors).
Combustion in its simplest format is:
CH4 + 2 O2 = Energy + 2H2O + CO2
The only way to cut CO2 is to turn off the factories and power plants. The only primary power generation facility that doesn’t use CO2 is nuclear. Do the Dems want more nuclear?
The Dems know Bush will veto, so it is something they are doing in order to grandstand.
Are they going to stop having useless meetings?
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY IS AL GORE’S BIGGEST FANS
http://www.dekalb-chronicle.com/articles/2007/10/20/opinions/opinions02.txt
Criticism from the Left of Gore as a stealth nuclear lobbyist.
The Scream is perfect. Frankly, I don’t trust any ,any Dem to lead this nation. As a movie sketch once said, I don’t like you because you are going to get me killed.
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