Phil Kerpen, AFP National Policy Director, begins the discussion by noting that there is a lot of political and indeed pseudo-religious fervor behind Global “Warming”, calling it the biggest threat to freedom. He delivers a long laundry list of the intrusive policy initiatives that sounds suspiciously like a former policy followed by the likes of Cuba and North Korea.
On to the “moderate” cap and trade program (note; McCain has taken his name off this). Even Joe Lieberman, the lead sponsor, says that it will cost hundreds of billions a year to comply with. Electricity prices go up by 65% by 2015, job losses are 2.5 million. Even if the targets are met for a trillion dollars, if the Gorebal Warming “scientists” are 100% right, it will drop the temp 0.029 degrees (if its Fahrenheit or Celcius) in 50 years. If every country were to do this, it would be 0.07 degrees.
Algore Goracle said that Kyoto is step 1 of 30. Meanwhile, in Europe, which signed onto Kyoto, their “greenhouse gas” emissions went up in 2006 (by contrast, they went down in the US).
Hillary Clinton will take away your cheap energy and your car for the common good (that sounds familiar; that’s her plan on everything) as she pushes a 55 mpg mandate. Bill said that we just have to slow down the economy.
Back to Algore; let’s tax carbon, even though it helped bring about the 104th Congress last time around. We just need to hide it.
Cap-and-trade is 4 to 5 times less efficient than an actual tax, and it costs more. The Congressional Budget Office has scored cap-and-trade as a tax increase, and it’s a doozy (100%).
There is another danger; the EPA calling CO2 a “dangerous substance” and regulate it under the Clean Air Act. The courts are trying to get that to happen. It would trigger draconian measures against every source that puts out more than 250 tons a year. Most commercial buildings, and even larger homes, would fall under this, and it would require EPA permits and environmental impact studies.
Quote from Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the 1992 Conference on Environment and Development – “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t our responsibility to bring that about?” That sums up the goals of the Gorebal Warming acolytes.
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