Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/10/2009 4:27:41 PM PDT by sionnsar
Cap-and-trade theologians love to invoke markets: Merely put a price on carbon, they say, and the invisible hand will shoo us toward an eco-friendly future. Of course Congress has its own ideas.
Take the climate bill just offered by House powers Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts. The 648-page "discussion draft" ducks the most important policy questions about what Democrat Ben Cardin calls "the most significant revenue-generating proposal of our time" -- namely, how the tax will be levied and the proceeds spent. But it does find space to impose thousands of new environmental regulations on the entire economy, all separate from cap and trade.
Right off, the bill mandates that 25% of U.S. electricity come from wind, solar, geothermal or biomass by 2025. Sorry, nuclear doesn't count. This kind of renewable portfolio standard directly contradicts the putative flexibility of cap and trade, which is supposed to allow businesses to reduce CO2 how and where it is least expensive. But Democrats aren't about to let the details of their own policies stand in the way of magical thinking.
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ping!
What a PATHETIC bunch they all are.
Well I hope they mandate building those windmills off of Hyannis. What? Too many NIMBY ‘Rats in their massive compounds don’t want to obstruct their views? Hypocrites.
Please don’t put “Henry Waxman” and “jacuzzi” in the same sentence ever again.
[ full body s h u d d e r ]
“...as early as next week the EPA will classify carbon as a dangerous pollutant under current clear-air laws, prompting a separate avalanche of new regulations. Mr. Waxman must be jealous, considering that the EPA staff wants to regulate — among literally everything that produces CO2 — “lawn and garden equipment” and “enteric fermentation” in livestock, otherwise known as flatulence.
The Obama Administration claims it is flirting with this “endangerment finding” and the economic havoc it would wreak only to force Congress into falling in line with its climate agenda.”
Oh, goody. The run on ammunition wasn’t enough - Nostrils is going to create a run on shower heads. Note to self: head to Home Depot this weekend...
Not as pathetic as the morons who elected them.
All part of the plan to break the economy so the ruling class can run it.
We literally have a bunch of INSANE people making decisions that directly effect OUR lives!!!
Would you buy a used car from this man?
FMCDH(BITS)
Our best and brightest? Cod help us to weather this storm of idiocy and the strength to work to elect common sense people.
They can stuff it.
I stocked up on years worth of incandescent light bulbs because I don’t like flourescent light. If I could make them myself I would.
It’s so funny. They can mandate all they want on the electric grid, but what’s going to happen is that people will start buying generators to get enough power to do what they want, defeating the whole intent and getting around the extra energy taxes.
Correction....GOD not Cod
Big Bother in the Bathroom. Tap Tap Tap.
Quite simply they must go ASAP, one way or another.
Waxman looks worse than the Joker after he got dipped in acid.
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