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US House May Pass "Cap & Trade" Bill
jamie found this roundup on the status of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, which is about to be voted on by the US House of Representatives. (The article notes that if the majority Democrats can't see the 218 votes needed for passage, they will probably put off the vote.) The AP has put together a FAQ that says, "[The bill, if passed,] fundamentally will change how we use, produce and consume energy, ending the country's love affair with big gas-guzzling cars and its insatiable appetite for cheap electricity. This bill will put smaller, more efficient cars on the road, swap smokestacks for windmills and solar panels, and transform the appliances you can buy for your home." The odds-makers are giving the bill a marginal chance of passing in the House, with tougher going expected in the Senate.
According to Wall Street Journal, at least, the "Cap & Trade" law will constitute the biggest tax in US history...
The sad part is, even after the human-caused "global warming" proves to be either grossly overstated or completely bogus, the tax will stay on for decades — just like all other taxes have...
Global warming advocates don't bother with proofs, burdening the skeptics (branded "deniers") with that instead. They only adjust their PR-campaigning, such as switching to the term "climate change", when the actual weather changes from hotter to colder such as over the past two years. Indeed, as Che Guevarra repeats from millions of their T-shirts:
("Flamebait" my capitalist behind.)
But, hey, if the true goal is destruction of Capitalism, one should not bother with too much honesty — it only slows down the fall of the hated civilization.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
"A: It fundamentally will change how we use, produce and consume energy, ending the country's love affair with big gas-guzzling cars and its insatiable appetite for cheap electricity. This bill will put smaller, more efficient cars on the road, swap smokestacks for windmills and solar panels, and transform the appliances you can buy for your home."
This is the Obama party line, plain and simple.
It has no remote relationship to the truth or reality in the present or future.
In other words, it's a lie.
BS. People do not commute between NY and LA everyday. The commute distance is not greater in the US than it is in Western Europe. Oh and you know, in Spain it is unbearably hot during the summer and in Finland it is unbearably cold during the summer, the US do not have a more extreme climate. There are different climates, just as in Europe.
No, the problem is really that Americans are not able to do what others do routinely. Look at those gas hungry cars when Europeans and Japanese car makers are perfectly able to produce small and efficient cars. Houses are not well isolated at all also. Building are overheated during the winter and overcooled during the summer. And so on, and so on. I have been living in the US for quite some time now and i am still impressed by the amount of waste. Waste that has nothing to do with geography. Waste that could perfectly be easily avoided. I lament about the lack of knowledge of Americans in economics or energetics (and i am even more appalled by the latter as i own a MS in energetics) and this damaging âoeno can doâ attitude. Tell me guys, how will be the economy once the Earth looks like Venus? Greedy, short sighted, intellectually limited people are arrogantly killing the planet.
And nothing beats an economic boom like rising oceans flooding over cities and farmland. ;)
If you assume that people drive cross country every day for work instead of living in communities that are zoned according to energy costs and value mass transit investment instead of spending the money on roads at a ratio of 40 to 1, as we do in the states.
But you're not that stupid, are you?
Of course lots of people live in hell, which is essentially what you're describing.
Don't go ragging on everyone else because God stuck you there. You must have deserved it....
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"Alleged global warming" : fail!
Equating climate models to weather models: fail!
CO2 can't be harmful because it's "natural": fail!
Claiming expertise for "having studied chemistry": fail!
Getting modded +5, Insightful: epic fail!
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!