Posted on 03/31/2009 11:38:56 AM PDT by Red Steel
WASHINGTON — The debate on global warming and energy policy accelerated on Tuesday as two senior House Democrats unveiled a far-reaching bill to cap heat-trapping gases and move the country quickly from dependence on coal and oil.
But the bill leaves crucial questions unanswered and as of now has no Republican support. For those reasons, it marks the beginning, not the end, of debate in the current Congress on how to deal with two of President Obama’s top priorities, climate change and energy.
The draft measure, written by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, sets a slightly more ambitious goal for capping greenhouse gases than President Obama’s proposal, requiring a reduction in emissions of 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels. President Obama’s plan envisioned a 14 percent reduction by 2020. Both would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming by roughly 80 percent by 2050.
The Waxman-Markey bill, known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act, emerges at a time when many Americans, and their representatives, are wary of wide-ranging environmental legislation that could raise energy costs and potentially cripple industry. The bill also comes as the Environmental Protection Agency is about to exert regulatory authority over greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The bill would pre-empt that effort and create a new cap-and-trade scheme to control carbon emissions.
The new bill would require every region of the country to produce a quarter of its electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal by 2025. A number of lawmakers from some regions of the country, particularly the Southeast, call that goal unrealistic because the natural resources and technology to meet it do not currently exist.
The bill also calls for modernization
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So, facing the coldest winter in a long time, the DimocRATS are going to try and pass a bill that forces people to engage in behavior that causes Global Warming, right?
Your energy prices will be higher than the atmosphere.
Any member of Congress or the Senate who votes for this is voting to destroy our country. You know what that makes them.
Al Gore’s wet dream is about to be reality.
Have the poor figured out that they get a jelly finger in the buttocks from the Democrats via high energy prices, aka taxes? And that the Republicans like for them to have inexpensive energy and for them to keep more of their paychecks?
And why can’t the Republicans get that simple message out to Americans?
“and move the country quickly from dependence on coal and oil.”
Coal miners in OH, PA, WV, WY, etc......take note!!!
and here I thought our country was founded to escape State-sponsored religion...
“we can’t drive as much as we want, eat as much as we want and turn our thermastat as low as we want....”
gasoline, electricity and food have been targeted for “necessarily skyrocket”ing prices at the behest of government fascists
Waxman... who takes in more oxygen (and let’s more hot air out), than any in creation with that nose. He should be the first to go re: Enviroeugenics.
You mean the Stratosphere!
God this sucks.
And there is no one who will stop this. :(
We have to do something right now before people realize we don’t
“The draft measure, written by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts,”
Proposed by the two lunatic leftist bookends.
Actually I meant Exosphere! ;-)
“And why can’t the Republicans get that simple message out to Americans?”
Two reasons. Reason number one. Republicans running for office are afraid to call their Democrat opponents Marxist Criminals.
The second reason is the media will not convey the Republicans message. The only way we can get our message conveyed is to go after the media and force them to report on what is going on.
Utterly stupid!! Totally impossible! This is the kind of central planning not based on reality that was common in the USSR. Look where they are today.
These idiots are completely unhinged.
Here we are in the biggest economic downturn in history, and the liberals do the following:
1.) Raise Taxes.
2.) Spending raised through the stratosphere
3.) Apply moves to stifle business though excessive legislation.
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