http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/energytax/ en-us Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:45:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380985/posts Some moderate Democrats still are “really anguished” over voting for the energy bill, Rep. Jason Altmire told Fox News, and they “would be reluctant now to vote for health care and take a second vote that might be unpopular in their district.”With Republicans raising the volume of their protests and House Democratic leaders uncertain if they have enough rank-and-file support, some moderate Democrats sense that passing a health care reform bill will be as difficult as the House’s energy bill, which was approved by a slim margin June. That has caused quite a bit of hand-wringing among the Democrats. Some... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380985/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:45:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376532/posts For many years, Americans indulged the global-warming fantasies of Al Gore and the loopy left because it didn't cost them anything (at least directly), it didn't materially affect their lifestyles, and it made some of them feel all warm, fuzzy and green. Now warmists are in power in Washington and pushing cap-and-trade legislation that will raise energy costs for the average household, conservatively, by a few thousand dollars a year while increasing America's dependence on intermittent and unreliable energy sources but without meaningfully changing earth's climate. Not surprisingly, Americans no longer are all that hot for global warming. Actual data... Waterbury Republican-American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376532/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:20:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372248/posts WASHINGTON -- Sen. Max Baucus said Tuesday he has "serious reservations" about climate legislation newly unveiled by his Democratic colleagues, signaling that lawmakers may have to pull back from some ambitious goals in order to line up needed votes. "I have some concerns about the overall direction of the bill," Mr. Baucus (D., Mont.) said at the start of hearings in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "I have serious reservations with the depth of the mid-term reduction target in the bill and the lack of preemption of the Clean Air Act." Mr. Baucus -- who's also chairman of... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372248/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:04:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372009/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Senate committee on Tuesday launches three long days of hearings on a Democratic climate bill in a bid to further convince an international summit in December that Washington is serious about tackling global warming. The Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee will kick off Tuesday's hearing at 9:30 a.m. EDT with a panel of heavy-hitters from President Barack Obama's Cabinet: the secretaries of energy, transportation and interior and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Joining them will be the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. According to an EPA statement, the officials will focus... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372009/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:42:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367092/posts Sending Anita Dunn—who is probably not enjoying her proverbial 15 minutes of fame—out onto the north lawn of the White House to attack Fox News is serving its purpose. The responsibility for determining which of the national news networks are legitimate and which ones are not is something the founders did not include in the executive powers section of the Constitution. One might even argue that the inclusion of the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights is a pretty clear sign they thought that giving any part of the federal government the power to do so would not, to... U.S. News & World Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367092/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:12:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355117/posts This is an excerpt from a recently obtained internal E mail written by a gleeful GE executive. “On climate change we were able to work closely with key authors of the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, recently passed by the House of Representatives. If this bill is enacted into law it would benefit many GE businesses.” “…benefit many GE businesses” becomes clearer by following the paper trail of “donations” from GEPAC the lobbying arm of General Electric Corporation. GE/Democrat pay to play scheme Last year most of GEPAC’s contributions went to Democrats. This year almost all of its cash bought... The Collins Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355117/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:05:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352495/posts WASHINGTON � Sen. Barbara Boxer left little doubt she was having a particularly good time Wednesday. Wearing sunglasses, California's junior Democratic senator made her way to a stage on the east lawn of the Capitol, then stood in front of a huge U.S. flag and waved to a throng of supporters as U2's "It's a Beautiful Day" roared through the loudspeakers. "What a great day!" enthused the senator. "This is like giving birth again!" Boxer was celebrating her alliance with Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry to introduce a long-awaited bill that, if approved, could land her in the history books.... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352495/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:55:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346444/posts Cap-and-trade energy tax legislation appears stalled, at least for now, in the U.S. Senate. But that doesn’t mean the cap-and-trade energy tax isn’t imminent. Senate Environment Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer hasn’t even introduced the bill yet; new Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln has declared the House bill dead on arrival; and there are several other cross-cutting controversies that divide Democrats on the bill. The Obama administration is unfazed. They are moving full steam ahead with an even more costly regulatory scheme in the name of global warming—shoehorning the regulation of greenhouse gases into the 1970 Clean Air Act, a... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346444/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:16:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296978/posts The U.S. effort to counteract climate change is poised to not only destroy the U.S. economy, but dramatically increase global carbon dioxide levels. That was the message, on Thursday, from Tom Tripp, a magnesium specialist from Utah who gave a 45-minute keynote address in Provo at the Utah Farm Bureau Midyear Conference. Beyond magnesium, Tripp has one other distinction to his name -- he is one of 2,000 members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who share half a Nobel Prize, the other half owned by former vice president Al Gore. But though Tripp and Gore may share the... Daily Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296978/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:22:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294193/posts On June 28, 2009, the House of Representatives, by a narrow margin (219-212), passed the Waxman-Markey bill. The so-called “cap and trade” bill has been sold as a system for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the struggle against global warming. There’s a full-court press on the U.S. Senate to pass its version of “cap and trade”...The Obama administration’s EPA sees the increasing evidence against global warming as a threat to their agenda and has taken desperate measures. About a week before the House vote on “cap and trade,” the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released some EPA e-mails, demonstrating... Cybercast News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294193/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2293840/posts Palin Vs. Kerry (And MoveOn.org) By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:20 PM The political death of Sarah Palin has been greatly exaggerated. In a devastating op-ed in the Washington Post, Alaska's governor exposes the cap-and-tax fraud that has nothing to do with earth's temperature and everything to do with government control of the economy. She also exposes the stealth socialism ambitions of the Democratic left and once again points out the availability of abundant "shovel-ready" resources under America's soil, off America's shores and even in America's rocks. Judging from the reaction from Sen. Kerry and... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2293840/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:24:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293557/posts Politics: John Kerry, replying to an op-ed Sarah Palin wrote on cap-and-trade, suggests the Alaska governor "check the view from her front porch." What she sees from there, senator, is energy wealth going to waste.The political death of Sarah Palin has been greatly exaggerated. In a devastating op-ed in the Washington Post, Alaska's governor exposes the cap-and-tax fraud that has nothing to do with earth's temperature and everything to do with government control of the economy. She also exposes the stealth socialism ambitions of the Democratic left and once again points out the availability of abundant "shovel-ready" resources under America's... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293557/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:52:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289330/posts Climate Change: Channeling King Canute, G-8 leaders agree to wreck the world's economy, and ours, by pledging to prevent temperatures from rising more than 4 degrees by 2050. What if the Earth has other plans?Canute was the legendary king whose sycophantic followers praised his power and wisdom. He was The One of his time. He once stood on the shore and commanded the waves to halt. As the story goes, he was exercising his ego when in fact he was giving his followers a dose of reality — the power of man over nature is finite and inconsequential. We were... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289330/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:08:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285781/posts The Jefferson Area Tea Party is rallying against Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello. Thursday afternoon, the group held a protest at Perriello's office on Second Street in Charlottesville. They are upset with Perriello's support of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The group says the bill, which still being debated by the Senate, is an energy tax. Those people who support the initiative say it reduces the amount of carbon that electric utilities, oil refiners, and certain industries can emit. Perriello voted for the so-called "cap and trade bill", which passed the House 219 to 212. WVIR TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285781/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 05:41:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283823/posts Sir, the candle is in full compliance with the new Cap and Trade law prohibiting bright light bulbs, but the water bottles are a felony. Please come with us. Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283823/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:18:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282071/posts Climate Change: A switch of four Republican votes would have defeated Waxman-Markey, the Democrats' global warming legislation. But like the Clinton Btu tax, the bill could die in the Senate and turn the House over to the GOP.What were these RINOs thinking? The GOP is supposed to be the party of low taxes and free markets. Rep. Mike Castle, one of the eight offered an explanation right off of President Obama's teleprompter. "Nations around the world are surging ahead with emission reductions and developing new energy technologies," Castle, Delaware's at-large congressman, posted on his House Web site. "The United States... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282071/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:17:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282030/posts Climate Change: A switch of four Republican votes would have defeated Waxman-Markey, the Democrats' global warming legislation. But like the Clinton Btu tax, the bill could die in the Senate and turn the House over to the GOP. What were these RINOs thinking? The GOP is supposed to be the party of low taxes and free markets. Rep. Mike Castle, one of the eight offered an explanation right off of President Obama's teleprompter...Illinois Republican Mark Kirk, who has senatorial ambitions to replace the choice of impeached former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Sen. Roland Burris, demonstrates why GOP fortunes in the Land... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282030/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:36:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281427/posts Republicans on Sunday roundly criticized an energy plan passed by the House that is intended to address global warming and change the way the United States produces and uses energy. “You’re going to find signs on manufacturing doors, if this bill passes, that says ‘Moved, gone to China,’ “ Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa said on ABC’s “This Week.” Mr. Grassley, like other Republicans, said the House bill is a national energy tax that would drive manufacturers and jobs to countries with less-strict emissions standards. The bill passed the House last Friday with a vote of 219 to 212,... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281427/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:51:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280937/posts One of the principal allegations against the climate-change legislation the House could consider as soon as June 26 is the charge that it would compel a transfer of wealth from Midwestern states that burn large quantities of coal to coastal states that don't. But it is more accurate to say that the bill reduces a regional disparity that allows Midwestern and other coal-dependent states to enjoy artificially low electricity prices at the expense of states elsewhere, particularly along the coasts. Rather than create a new regional inequality, the global-warming bill would lessen an existing one. The perverse pattern of today's... National Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280937/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280809/posts As Democrats strained to win over crucial holdouts on the way to narrow, party-line approval of global warming legislation, they were dogged by a critical question: Has the political climate changed since 1993? Veteran members of both parties vividly remember when many House Democrats, in the early months of the Clinton administration, reluctantly backed a proposed B.T.U. tax — a new levy on each unit of energy consumed — only to see it ignored by the Senate and seized as a campaign issue by Republicans, who took control of the House the next year. “A lot of Democrat members got... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280809/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:42:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279908/posts Fiscal Policy: The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy. Smoot-Hawley will seem like a speed bump. Not since a misguided piece of legislation imposed tariffs that turned a recession into a depression has there been a piece of legislation as bad as Waxman-Markey. The 1,000-plus-page American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is being rushed to a vote by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before anyone can seriously object to this economic suicide pact. It's what Janet Napolitano, secretary of Homeland Security,... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279908/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:13:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280041/posts Fiscal Policy: The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy. Smoot-Hawley will seem like a speed bump.Not since a misguided piece of legislation imposed tariffs that turned a recession into a depression has there been a piece of legislation as bad as Waxman-Markey.The 1,000-plus-page American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is being rushed to a vote by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi before anyone can seriously object to this economic suicide pact. Real Clear Markets http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280041/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279582/posts Fiscal Policy: The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy. Smoot-Hawley will seem like a speed bump...As we've said before, capping emissions is capping economic growth. An analysis of Waxman-Markey by the Heritage Foundation projects that by 2035 it would reduce aggregate gross domestic product by $7.4 trillion. In an average year, 844,000 jobs would be destroyed, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by almost 2 million. Consumers would pay through the nose as electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, as President Obama once... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279582/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:07:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279536/posts President Barack Obama pushed urgently Thursday for passage of legislation to confront global warming, billing it as a job-creating machine rather than the costly ''job killer'' Republicans denounced. He telephoning wavering Democrats on the eve of what could be a historic House vote. Speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House, Obama said Washington must not miss the opportunity to work on cleaning the air, creating new ''green'' energy jobs and moving the nation away from its reliance on fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas. The White House appeared concerned that momentum for the bill was... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279536/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2279487/posts Fiscal Policy: President Obama sends his emissaries to Congress to explain why an economy-killing tax on energy — a tax all Americans will pay in all aspects of their lives — is necessary to save the Earth....The problem is that capping emissions based on dubious climate science will also kill hopes for a rapid economic recovery. Any good that comes from the stimulus package will be wiped out by this energy tax that will be passed on to every consumer through everything we produce and consume. Money that could be spent on creating jobs will be wasted trying to save... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2279487/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:27:28 GMT