Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/20/2009 6:45:28 PM PDT by repentant_pundit
PHOENIX -- An Arizona man has devised a clever way to protest the highly controversial Cap and Trade bill that threatens our economy and which would significantly raise the cost of living for Americans. He literally let the air out of the balloon in explaining his plan to The Arizona Conservative.
Nick Fletcher, who created the unique protest, said: "In March, I heard about the upcoming TEA parties," Fletcher recalls. "It seemed to me the TEA parties were missing something. I asked myself: what new tax threatens all of us ? Answer: The Cap & Trade tax on carbon dioxide emissions ! Defiantly dumping carbon dioxide out of a balloon in protest accurately echoes the Boston Tea Party, which is to dump the item that bears a new, outrageous tax.
Fletcher said he didn't believe most conservatives really thought the House of Representatives would pass a CO2 tax, and so he didn't act on his idea. Until the House actually did pass the bill June 26. That was his call to arms. On July 4, he wrote and wrote slogans for and then had balloons bearing the following message:
"This balloon was inflated with Carbon Dioxide (CO2), just by exhaling into it. But our energy bills will be inflated with a Carbon Tax (Cap and Trade), just by an act of Congress! Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and say No to Cap and Trade!"
(Excerpt) Read more at azconservative.org ...
CO2 is produced with every breath you exhale.
Thanks to the Waxman-Markey Cap & Trade bill, CO2 could be the tea of 2009.
All that CO2 will become oxygen and cellulose fairly quickly. The Earth is pretty good at regulating itself and doesn’t need laws passed by power hungry hounds.
Now they need to get some hot air ballooners to join their protest as well!
Republican Governor Jodi Rell’s #3 ranking couldn’t be more misleading. She’s a flaming socialist among a state replete with socialists.
They did:
http://hotairtour.org/
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Why the Waxman-Markey bill will kill the US with energy outsourcing and refining issues...PDF
http://www.api.org/Newsroom/upload/ENSYS_W_M_Briefing_Report_2009_8_20.pdf
“”Refining, energy security, jobs, physical security, economy, a decent life....
The United States will be more dependent on imports of gasoline and other petroleum fuels while U.S. refining production would be shifted overseas if a climate change bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives becomes law, a study shows.
An analysis by global consulting firm EnSys Energy of the impact of the “American Clean Energy and Security Act”, which passed by a narrow 219-212 vote in the House in June, on the U.S. refining sector showed that investment in U.S. refining capacity could plummet because the cost of doing business could soar. Production at U.S. refineries would drop while production at refineries in countries that do not limit their own greenhouse gas emissions would rise. The impact on global refinery greenhouse gas emissions would be minor as reductions in U.S. emissions mostly would be offset by increases in emissions in other countries.
“This study clearly shows the devastating impact this legislation could have on U.S. jobs and U.S. energy security,” said API President and CEO Jack Gerard. “Climate legislation should not come at the expense of U.S. economic and energy security. Congress needs to analyze carefully the impact of any climate policy on ordinary Americans, American jobs and American companies. A deep decline in U.S. refining activity would have a ripple effect throughout the economy, affecting jobs in sectors beyond the oil and gas industry. Steelworkers, construction workers, even the shop keepers, school teachers and waitresses working in communities where refineries operate would feel the pinch.”
The House climate legislation drives up individual and business fuel costs because it inequitably distributes free emission “allowances” to various sectors. Refiners are held responsible for 44% of emissions, including the refinery emissions (about 4%) as well as consumer emissions from planes, trains, automobiles, heating oil, and other petroleum use. Yet refiners are allocated only 2.25% of allowances. In contrast, some other sectors receive free allowances that match or exceed their obligation.
According to the EnSys study, commissioned by API, the U.S. would need to increase its imports of petroleum fuels in order to meet as much as nearly one-fifth of U.S. refined product demand in 2030 if the House climate bill becomes law, double what imports would have been.
U.S. refining throughput, a measure of productivity, could plummet by as much as 25% (4.4 million barrels per day) and investment in U.S. refining could “
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