Beam me to Planet Gore !
I'm sure it's wrong, too. It's probably too low.
Surmising the endless stream of available government money is translated by goverment bean-counters as likely the same for American households. They would be WRONG and severely underestimating the burden they will be creating.
I think glo-bull warming is one of the biggest pieces of crap to come down the pike in a long time - but - the first part of a book titled “how to lie with statistics” which was written in the 30s and which I got from my grand pa - deals with never letting yourself be roped into revealing the mean.
Always, always, always use averages if you intend to deceive.
There aren’t good enough numbers in this to evaluate it.
But the strict use of averages makes it highly suspect. Let the DUmmies do the spinning.
With all the nObama prosperity that should be flooding the nation, it will be a mere pittance for each household to cough up another $260 a month!
Extreme Sarcasm.
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Great Post, everyone should read this.
This is still a huge understatement in the cost, Manufacturers aren’t going to get some of the money returned to them, and if they did it would be a world trade organization violation.
Bottom line, you can say bye to manufacturing.
If I was a betting man that is where I would put my money. For example
Congressional Democrats have left the door open to spending the revenues to "invest in clean energy jobs and cost-saving energy efficient technology," as Rep. Markey's staffers have written.
Democrats trolling for campaign cash by sending tax dollars to useless start ups that could not make a profit with out government subsidy
Cap & Trade: Even More Expensive Than Thought The fact is, cap and trade is going to cost taxpayers significantly more than the measly $13/week tax cut that the Democrats and the left are so excited about. While the $3,900 cost cited by John McCormack is an accurate accounting of what Reilly’s study portends, even that is probably an unrealistically low estimate.
http://www.qando.net/?p=2214
I get it!
Taxes don’t cost anybody ANYTHING, because the government is going to SPEND the taxes on GOOD THINGS!
Whatever the true cost, this cap and trade baloney is like attaching a one pound or more weight to the leg of sprinter, and then claiming the runner can still run almost as fast as he or she could before the weight was put on. The question is: why put the weight on in the first place?
Cap and trade is an outrageous sam, a tax on air. It is merely a fig leaf to cover sucking money from the populace.
There is but one course....... exterminate the scammers
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When Lyndon Johnson left the presidency in 1969, he left behind the legacy of a transformed federal government. At the end of the Eisenhower presidency in 1961, there were only 45 domestic social programs. By 1969 the number had climbed to 435. Federal social spending, excluding Social Security, rose from $9.9 billion in 1960 to $25.6 billion in 1968
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I'm sure cap and trade will never cost very much. Alarmist wackos are standing in the way of the Messiah saving the planet. How could they! (/sarcasm off!)
If the feds refund the $3,128 (average) to the people, then the feds won’t be able to use any of that money to fund alternative energy research. I thought part of Zero’s sales pitch was that the extra ‘fees’ on fossil fuel energy would fund such research. No?
The same money can’t be used for both purposes at the same time.
BTW, $3,128 is very close to what we pay each year for gas and electric combined. Zero and Nostrilitis will double my gas and electric costs????? What great guys.
I’d be willing to pay the 3,900 for one year if it would wake people up to what the Dems have in mind for this country.
BTT
Europe’s experiment with cap and trade has turned into a bureaucratic mess that has failed to live up to its initial expectations. A report by the GAO reveals that the supply of carbon permits has exceeded the demand causing allowance prices to fall substantially. This policy failure has caused the European economy to suffer and expectations to reduce CO2 emissions have been lowered.
Additionally, Europe’s cap and trade experiment has led to decreased employment opportunities and higher energy prices across the continent. In France manufacturers have packed up and left for Morocco. In the Netherlands factories are forced to close early to meet emissions standards. In Germany energy prices have risen 5% each year sparking widespread outrage. All across Europe evidence shows that cap and trade has hurt the economy. If the United States implements a European style cap and trade system, estimates http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09423t.pdf show that it could wipe out between 1.2-1.8 million American jobs by 2020.
Cap & Trade: Bad for Europe, Wrong for America By Lee Lukoff http://americansolutions.dev2.apperceptive.com/energy/2009/04/cap-trade-bad-for-europe-wrong-for-america.php
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In addition, heat is not optional, expecially in colder areas in the country where we already have plenty of clean air and subzero winter temperatures are the norm.