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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoenergy; carbon; carbontax; energy; energyprices; energytax; ernestmoniz; globaltax; kenyanbornmuzzie; keystonexl; nominee; obamas; opec; switchenergyproject
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To: Nachum

Where is that guy with the palm to the face - Not this Crap again. Carbon Tax right that will bring more jobs to Americas disaster president! More of the ridiculous coming from DC - Disaster Center.


21 posted on 03/25/2013 3:35:21 PM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: Nachum

Can ANYONE on this forum continue to heat/cool their home or drive their car at all if energy costs triple from where they are right now?

ANYONE HERE?

$12/gallon gas and triple your electric bill.

Can you honestly survive that?


22 posted on 03/25/2013 4:25:57 PM PDT by Advil000
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To: kabar

We have our own fuels. We need to pump and refine only domestic oil. We need to use coal to generate electricity. Our land gives us the energy we need. These bureaucrats are not so much insane as they are wicked for dictating hardship for our citizens. And FOR WHAT???? Why do they want us to have hardship?


23 posted on 03/25/2013 5:13:35 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Red Badger; chris37; Nachum

I believe the chinese charge the family for the bullet used to dispose of their “problem”. Maybe that’s a deficit reduction approach the ‘bummer has in mind.


24 posted on 03/25/2013 5:21:49 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Tunehead54

yeah, but that’s going to be a double charge as we have all already paid for Damnit Janet’s bullet supply.

I’m pretty sure he/ she/ it has enough bullets to put 6 in each person in this country ...


25 posted on 03/25/2013 5:24:46 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Advil000

If you look at pictures from the 19th century, especially the Civil War, you notice that there are few forests and trees. Why? Because people heated their little houses with wood. If fuel oil and propane go to $12/gal say good bye to all the nice trees.


26 posted on 03/25/2013 5:35:04 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jjotto

Right, thank you.


27 posted on 03/25/2013 6:05:52 PM PDT by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Nachum.


28 posted on 03/25/2013 7:42:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: kabar

No.

They just want to destroy it.


29 posted on 03/25/2013 8:02:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: TurboZamboni
Painting your roof white just increases the ‘desert effect’ which increases solar reflection, decreasing rainfall. Urban areas are effectively deserts climate wise. Heat rising from urban areas could well influence the particular direction the jet stream takes at a given time, thus determining where highs and lows move ... food for thought.
30 posted on 03/26/2013 5:08:51 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: kabar

Not just of the economy,

energy is LIFE itself.

Without energy, you die. Without energy, your kids die.


31 posted on 03/26/2013 5:09:45 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: elkfersupper

... not to mention the pig that buggered them before breakfast ..


32 posted on 03/26/2013 5:10:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: central_va
“say good bye to all the nice trees.”

Nah, most communities have strict laws about wood burning, as well as the accompanying stiff penaltie$.

33 posted on 03/26/2013 5:14:22 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: cripplecreek

There has been rumors that ozero will agree to let the Keystone pipeline go forward in exchange for a new carbon tax. No details on how nasty the tax would be. Given the nature of these pukes, I would imagine it will be stiff.
Pretty much negate any benefit of the pipeline.
We can count on the repubs to makes such a deal.
nice.


34 posted on 03/26/2013 5:18:46 AM PDT by Texas resident (I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on FR)
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To: Texas resident

Liberals are counting on us to sell out on our principles to get the pipeline. I’ve had liberals tell me that we should accept a deal because without the pipeline gas will be $10 per gallon.

I tell them that building the pipeline and accepting a carbon tax will also mean gas at $10 per gallon and the final loss of our freedoms through the taxation of every energy using aspect of our lives.


35 posted on 03/26/2013 5:36:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: MrB

This is the reason we should make energy as cheap as possible. Increasing its costs thru taxation is regressive hurting those at the bottom of the economic ladder the worst.


36 posted on 03/26/2013 7:20:08 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Nachum

Pretty funny to hear Democrats cry about taxing the poor when they were intentionally jacking up energy prices for those very poor.


37 posted on 12/16/2017 7:50:13 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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