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Obama’s Energy nominee: We need carbon tax to double or triple energy cost
Examiner ^ | 3/25/13 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 03/25/2013 2:34:34 PM PDT by Nachum

President Obama’s Energy secretary nominee regards a carbon tax as one of the simplest ways to move the energy industry towards clean technologies, though he notes that government would have to come up with a plan to mitigate the burden this tax places on poor people, who would pay the most.

“Ultimately, it has to be cheaper to capture and store it than to release it and pay a price,” MIT professor and Energy nominee Ernest Moniz told the Switch Energy Project in an interview last year. “If we start really squeezing down on carbon dioxide over the next few decades, well, that could double; it could eventually triple. I think inevitably if we squeeze down on carbon, we squeeze up on the cost, it brings along with it a push toward efficiency; it brings along with it a push towards clean technologies in a conventional pollution sense; it brings along with it a push towards security. Because after all, the security issues revolve around carbon bearing fuels.”

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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoenergy; carbon; carbontax; energy; energyprices; energytax; ernestmoniz; globaltax; kenyanbornmuzzie; keystonexl; nominee; obamas; opec; switchenergyproject
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1 posted on 03/25/2013 2:34:34 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 03/25/2013 2:35:06 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Criminally insane.


3 posted on 03/25/2013 2:35:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Nachum

Yeah, I need that like I need a hole in my head.


4 posted on 03/25/2013 2:35:29 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: chris37

They may give you one......


5 posted on 03/25/2013 2:36:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: Nachum

do we still need to paint our roof white if we buy a credit?


6 posted on 03/25/2013 2:36:58 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Nachum

Those mo’fos- I am just enraged at all these taxes!!! Its not worth working.


7 posted on 03/25/2013 2:37:43 PM PDT by seeker41 (On our way to hell in a handbasket)
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To: BenLurkin

Cheap energy is the life blood of an economy. It needs it in order to grow and thrive. These idiots think they must destroy this country in order to save it.


8 posted on 03/25/2013 2:37:50 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Nachum
Whoopie. MORE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for Congress and the DNC
as America is murdered.

Patent 6904336 on Carbon Credits is secretly held by ... Fannie Mae and the DNC.

9 posted on 03/25/2013 2:38:07 PM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Nachum

I thought his nominee for Energy is the female pres. of REI. Was she pulled? I am confused to say the least.


10 posted on 03/25/2013 2:40:19 PM PDT by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: TurboZamboni

Naw, Dr Chu is gone.


11 posted on 03/25/2013 2:40:40 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Nachum

This guy sounds certifiable.

I read just the other day that between gas and oil, the US has enough energy sources to last several hundred years.

And this guy is spouting windmill, solar, etc, all the stuff that never works as advertised in the real world.


12 posted on 03/25/2013 2:42:41 PM PDT by upchuck (Free Republic: faster than a speeding bullet!)
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To: Nachum
These people want the rest of us to live like Neanderthals while they spend a half-million dollars a day travelling to Paris.

Eff 'em and the horse they rode in on.

13 posted on 03/25/2013 2:42:48 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl

Sally Jewell at Interior?


14 posted on 03/25/2013 2:43:38 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: thackney

A full blown Barf Alert PING!


15 posted on 03/25/2013 2:45:51 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Nachum

Are we willing to sacrifice the keystone pipeline to avoid the carbon tax?

I know I am.


16 posted on 03/25/2013 2:46:19 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Nachum

You say you want to double or triple energy cost?

You say you want a revolution?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqC_Gma221M


17 posted on 03/25/2013 2:46:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Red Badger

No doubt they will eventually try.


18 posted on 03/25/2013 2:49:30 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Nachum

A side-effect of heavily taxing carbon would vastly increased revenues to government. They would be recycled as redistribution, and they would have to be, because the economic downside of increased energy costs would be a much weaker economy and much higher unemployment. That increases government dependence, and tilts the vote towards the Dems voting the funds.

You have to admire the self-reinforcing beauty of it, in a perverse way.


19 posted on 03/25/2013 2:58:07 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Jim Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB2Ad04mukI


20 posted on 03/25/2013 3:27:46 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~)
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