Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/05/2008 12:24:02 PM PDT by Puppage
Hartford (AP) _ The state Senate has given final legislative approval to a bill aimed at reducing the pollution that causes global warming.
Senators voted 35-0 in favor of the legislation and sent it to Gov. M. Jodi Rell. The House of Representatives approved it earlier. If she signs it into law, Connecticut will be the fifth state to adopt mandatory limits on global warming pollution. The state passed legislation back in 2004. But that law, which established benchmarks for air pollution reduction, was voluntary.
The new bill would require total emissions to be capped at 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. It would also require emissions levels to be cut 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050. State agencies would be required to adopt policies to meet the new caps.
And they all laughed when I said that we needed a Constitutional “Climate Protection Amendment” to prohibit the government from taking any action to regulate the climate, thus protecting us from these half-baked, insane, onerous and liberty-curtailing legislative acts that will only make us poorer and increase the government’s control over virtually every aspect of our lives.
Impossible. Can not be done. Well, it could, but you woudl have to return to an 1880's lifestyle.
There is a reason why businesses are fleeing blue states and new ones (including foreign ones) are opening up in red states. 35-0! Wow, can’t get more blue than that!
A local radio talk show host is railing against the bill.
(Beating my head against the wall, only wishing I could do it to THEM!)
The problem with that idea is that you’d have to return to an 1880’s population. Wood stoves and coal circa 1880 produced far more pollution per capita than current technology.
These are the idiots we Americans keep electing into office....We gotta stop the insanity...DON’T VOTE FOR ANY INCUMBENT....
“The state Senate has given final legislative approval to a bill aimed at reducing the pollution that causes global warming.”
This is such bravo sierra. There is no conclusive evidence the man’s emissions of GHGs cause “global warming”. The real threat is “Global Stupidity”.
The Road to Hell is Paved with Green Intentions!
Well, guess I’ll go out and have a fire in my little outdoor fire pit tonight. I was amazed that Connecticut actually let me have one, guess it wont be for long.
And I grew up here in Connecticut, years ago, we really were’t such weenies!
Wonderful! But, I'm not sure how they propose to reduce the output of the sun. Interesting to see how they propose to do THAT!
Idiots.
This will finish killing business and cost the public millions of dollars. Doesn’t bother the dems - they can blame it on Bush.
Being a law, and that there is usually penalties for failure to abide by the law, what are the penalties if Ct. does not meet this requirement and who pays them? And to whom?
There you go ruining the feeling with facts.
That's it.......I am taking my global warming & going home!
The American Taliban is going to legislate us back to the Stone Age.
35 to O.
Not enough courage or sense in even one of them to fill a thimble. How discouraging!
This mandate is beyond even the realm of comprehension. 1990 is a year chosen by the Europeans to handicap our industry. The collapse of the eastern block economies is not incidental in the choice of this year.
This law is totally meaningless except for the additional costs. Even if the mandate was achievable, the reductions would have no impact. This law will be used to punish enemies and reward friends. The law will also make the greens feel good.
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the right of the people to make and bear CO2, shall not be infringed.
But come to think of it, maybe we need something less ambiguous than "no law" or "shall not be infringed" to keep the ACLU and the rest of Harvard lawyers away. They get confused by that sort of unclear language.
thats right,I am kind of glad some states have taken upon themselves to go back to the stone ages,,maybe it will be shown by their economic and social destruction that we have to stop this non-sense about GW
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