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Vote For Cap and Trade, Or Else...

Posted 31 months ago|8 comments|1,142 views
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Alex Layton
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Puyallup, WA
Barbara “Call Me Senator” Boxer (D-CA), the senate’s top-ranked environmentalist, has resorted to panic and fear, in an attempt to get the cap and trade bill passed in the Senate. She has said that not passing the bill will result in “droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture” and more.

The bill’s goal is to reduce the United State’s emissions by 83% of 2005 levels, by 2050. In the process, however, it will cost taxpayers millions of dollars, while putting the American business owner at a great disadvantage, compared to the rest of the world.

I guess, what bothers me most, is that she (and the rest of the far left) are only reading and listening to what they want to hear, in regards to the effect of CO2 emissions. The list of scientists (as in, the people who study this sort of thing) who oppose the notion of man-made global climate change has been growing over recent years, but Congress is refusing to listen, because someone with more money is encouraging them where to vote. Australia even put a halt to their proposed cap and trade bill, when the US government couldn’t offer them more solid evidence of the effects of CO2 emissions.

I hope beyond hope that more democrats will see what this bill will do to the American public, ignore the lies being spread by the Goracle and his minions, and vote No.
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Jody F
Jody F
Harrisburg, PA
31 months ago: Beyond overall agreement with Alex Layton’s thoughts above, it seems logical common sense (which isn't all that common anymore) that if passage of cap and trade legislation will result in higher energy prices for all Americans, then it is a bad idea.

For those who may not have gotten off the couch or the sidelines of political theater to voice concern on this issue with their legislators, or who may lack a thorough sense of how national and international economics works, increased energy prices on businesses will be factored into prices of goods and services (almost immediately). This means that what it costs to produce everything from food to clothes, to manufactured goods and even overhead costs for entrepreneurs who sell you insurance, cut your hair, and provide your Internet service (among other things) will grow and so will your consumer price to obtain these goods and services.
Jody F
Jody F
Harrisburg, PA
31 months ago: On top of that, it will cost everyone more to heat and cool their home. They will also bear more costs to travel to the grocery store to buy their groceries or clothes or household cleaning and maintenance products, which will also be more expensive because the trucks that deliver these goods to your store will have to charge more to do so with higher energy costs for their fuel.

In a deep recession, this cap and trade legislation will make America less competitive globally, sucking more of our jobs over borders and across seas (never to return). And if all of that isn't bad enough, 9.5% unemployment is expected to continue growing to double digit levels (it already has in many parts of the country) and the trillions of blasted stimulus spending that hasn't worked has been funded largely by running the monetary printing presses, which means we all can look forward to sharper price increases as the dollar devalues in the next 12-18 months appreciably and any sane person in business tries not to lose his shirt by charging ever inflated prices for goods and services. Full passage of cap and trade legislation would not only add insult to the crippling of our economy leveled by bureaucratic spendaholics in Washington through failed stimulus spending, it would turn painful economic stress into catastrophic economic malaise.
31 months ago: Finally!!! I'm psyched! A reprieve for RSG and TCG by an intellectual! I'm ready to go and melt some ice cubes now in celebration! Way to go big guy! 'nuff said.

Like I said in earlier posts. They have no clue and can't, don't or won't admit they are being shafted. It's all about the new industrial revolution and who can get in now. It's always nice to know you will have a new government mandated industry that will guarantee your success. As long as you grease the right palms.
31 months ago: YEEEEEHAAAAA.
The Calvary has arrived.
Siempre and the rest of your guys can now rest easy. Passing cap and tax or.....er....uh..... tax and cap and tax..... uh...er.... tax and tax and tax will end all droughts, plagues, pestilence, extinctions and every other calamity in the world!!!!!!
Thank goodness!
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
31 months ago: Yes indeed, and one of the interesting sidelines created by our government (with no Wall Street ties) is carbon credit trading as a commodity in itself.
The big investment firms go around buying up the unused credits, and then put them on the market at even more ridiculous prices.
Imagine what will happen when some tycoon corners the carbon credit market, like the Gedddy's did with silver.
So, Joe Blow, running his little factory, has an upturn in business, wants to run extra shifts or maybe even expand. He has to go to an investment banker to buy "environmental permission", that he probably won't be able to afford anyway.

As a side note, the 91 percent of the last stimulus package still left undistributed is scheduled for release in the second part of 2010, just in time to start buying the next senatorial election.
31 months ago: Well you guy's pretty much summed it up. I would like to add another angle to this however. OOTB posted "Quotable quotes everyone should read" which brought up the One World Government movement. From what I have seen about this, the idea is that the standard of living in third world countries will be brought up (by transfer of U.S and other countries wealth), and the standard of living in the U.S will at the same time be brought down. This is in the One World Government's theory, the necessary steps to bring about a great socialistic utopia. Now I have been sceptical over the years on this theory but have slowly moved closer to the notion that it is a fact. One reason being that the moves our government is taking now with this cap and trade etc. is surely going to move even more of our wealth to third world countries as they will have an unfair production advantage etc. So it seems this administration has us right on track to bring us down to one step above third world status in a few years. Correct?
31 months ago: Jakarta, It has already been transferred (stolen). Do you really think all of that pretty gold bullion stacked in all of the depositories are actually solid gold? I had a guy approach me with the deal of a lifetime in a parking lot. He was offering gold at an incredibly low price. My first thought was it was stolen and he was fencing it. My second thought was it was fake.

Nice pictures of all those gold plated bars in the federal depositories that are holding up your non-governmental federal reserve notes.

Do you know what mineral salting is?

OOTB...nice to have someone else that watches the Bilderberg, CFR's, Trilaterals, Government also. I'm jazzed.
Altruist
Altruist
Eugene, OR
31 months ago: I agree that cap and trade is a bad idea because it is complex and didn't work too well in Europe. The problem there and here, is that the pollution credits were given away to the polluters instead of being auctioned off as Obama suggested. If they were auctioned off this revenue could have been returned to the people to offset higher fuel costs. A much simpler and more effective way to reduce greenhouse gases would be a Carbon Tax, but industry bought off Congress so that was taken off the table.
As for denying that global warming is happening, it is true that Exxon Mobile and other polluters have bought off a few people willing to prostitute their scientific principles for money, but the other 99.9% of climatologists and scientists in the world agree that people are causing the temperature increases. Look at the dissappearing glaciers or the islands washed away by rising seas.
When considering costs, consider the costs of doing nothing. How much would it cost to build dikes around New York City or to relocate all of Florida?

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