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mikeman2 -> RE: :: House passes climate-change bill (6/27/2009 1:14:17 AM)
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ORIGINAL: earthless
"Democrats narrowly passed historic climate and energy legislation
Friday evening that would transform the country’s economy and industrial landscape.
But the all-hands-on-deck effort to protect politically vulnerable Democrats by corralling the minimum number of votes to pass the bill, 219-212, proves that there are limits to President Barack Obama's ability to use his popularity to push through his legislative agenda. Forty-four Democrats voted against the bill, while just eight Republicans crossed the aisle to back it.
Despite the tough path to passage, the legislation is a significant win for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) and the bill’s two main sponsors – House Energy and Commerce committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Ca.) and Massachusetts Rep. Edward Markey (D) – who modified the bill again and again to get skeptical members from the Rust Belt, the oil-producing southeast and rural Midwest to back the legislation."
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Actually, I started a thread on this, but I suppose we can close that down and use this one instead.
According to the climatologist CHip Knappenberger, this bill would only moderate temperatures only hundredths of a degree in 2050 and no more than two tenths of a degree at the end of the century. So is this worth millions in lost jobs, trillions in lost income with 50-90% higher energy prices?
I once believed in the whole sky is falling carbon emissions theory but now I'm not so sure which includes the findings of Chip Knappenberger. It is because Obama and company refuse to pursue clean nuclear power in favor of coal producing energy, which is by far the dirtiest of the dirty carbon emitting culprits. Nuclear power had ZERO carbon emissions. So what does this tell me? It tells me that they really don't believe what they are saying, unless they think that nuclear power has the same chance of destroying the planet as fossil fuel emitting energy. LOL. I now believe it is all a big myth in order to rob us further of our hard earned tax money. Of course, what about the poor? Certainly the Dems won't allow the poor to go without being able to heat or cool their homes with these insane energy prices. That's right, the government will allow them rebates and credits for low income families to be able to afford to do so. So who do you suppose will take up that tab? That's right, the beast of burden tax payer (aka smuck). Wherever you find inequality and/or debt, he will be there!!
For me the whole sky is falling via carbon emissions arguement is mute simply because I think there are enough obvious reasons to get off foreign oil ASAP. So what has been done to do that I wonder? In short, nothing with this bill included. What we need are viable energy alternatives instaed of blindly taxing the populace in the hopes of another energy source that is "safe". In fact, are there any "safe" energy sources? Producing Solar panels is toxic to the environment and wind power kills birds!!! There just is no satisfying these environmental wackos and I fear the public won't understand this until they go to turn on a light switch and nothing comes on.
So in the meantime I guess we just drink the Obama grape juice and not drive SUV's. Never mind the fact that one of his plane rides to Hawaii burns the equivalent of a person driving an SUV for an entier year!! These hypocrites sicken me.
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