Beam me to Planet Gore !
GW is a moral truth not a scientific law.
No barf alert?
Do I get any credits for an activated charcoal filter?
Holy missing barf alert batman.
I don't know anything about it so I'm just going to drink the kool-aid instead of looking at the ingredients first.
I asked him why he didn't like my SUV?
He said because it polluted the air and used too much gas.
I asked him if my SUV was the only car in the world would the earth even notice how much pollution it caused or fuel it used?
He said no.
Then my car isn't the problem is it?
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As long as they don’t politically motivated BS involving this or other stuff, I’ll continue to happily watch Mythbusters.
Only if you promise to pay MY share.
By all means, lets jump over a cliff based on a fallacy without a shred of evidence to back it up.
why would anyone in their right mind support a carbon tax
Not a very strong case. All the arguments assumed that CO2 was a pollutant that caused global warming. There was no skepticism displayed in the article.
I think there *is* a conservative case to be made for a carbon tax, but that stupid article didn’t make it.
In his book “Comeback”, David Frum argues that we should get rid of ethanol subsidies and other government spending on “alternative energy”, end many of the environmental regulations, and instead use a carbon tax to let the market come up with a non-polluting energy source that wouldn’t make us beholden to the Middle East. (He also advocates increasing child tax credits to make up for the financial effect of the carbon tax on families.)
However, I fear if conservatives and/or Republicans embraced such a postion, we’d still end up with all the stupid environmental subsidies and regulations we have today and just slap a carbon tax on top of it.
So-called “use” taxes are total rubbish.
How about for every abortion we charge the parents (or parent) a bill for a life’s worth of taxes that the person would have paid in their lifetime.
Of course, we will defer to experts in assessing how much tax that would be.
Tax-happy liberals should be on board for that!
Instead of making the government richer, let’s just do away with all energy dependent novelties like cars, trucks, televisions and the like and go back to the horse and buggy days. That will certainly slow global warming.
Or wait, is it global cooling now? Tell Gore he needs to fix that whole sun flare thing too. Can we tax the sun?
The author is unpersuasive (translation: 'wrong') on all five arguments.
I'll tackle just this one. With growing economies in India and China (just to name a few), there will be more than enough takers for any oil that America leaves "on the table" to ensure that the proffered carbon tax plan and any resultant shift in American energy consumption patterns will do little or nothing to "starve the massive petrowealth of brutal Islamist dictators".
The author seemingly has a parochial worldview rooted in limited knowledge of oil consumption patterns, sources and dependencies that take place beyond America's borders...