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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This folks is the whole ball of wax. The end game. Total government control of virtually EVERY economic activity in this country.
The Republicans simply have to fight this tooth and nail with a media blitz and direct communication to the American people explaining to them what will be in store for them.
Well, I can dream can’t I.........
If Comrade Lysenko says you can grow lentils in the tundra then it can be done, gospodin. You had better start hoeing or Uncle Joe will want to know why!
Obviously, McCain has not learned of it just yet.
How will we save the polar bears, penguins and wooly mammoths when the actions in the bill have no effect on temperature?
Will we restore the once-a-month public bath?
Where are the subsidies for domestic buggy-whip manufacturers?
Where is the funding for the giant sun umbrella in outer space?
I say the GOP, RNC, whomever need to run national TV ads. Show Americans how the Dems wrecked the US via their subprime loan scams, etc...
We should adopt Natural Gas (LNG and/or CNG) as the official fuel of our Nation, as a “bridge”, then we can argue over the best long term solution.
Passing legislation on “vapor” fuel is pure steer manure.
Waxman looks like the Pig Men from the Twilight Zone
Waxman looks like the Pig Men from the Twilight Zone
Lets shoot for 100%.
Hey Henry WaxJob remember this:
On the morning of January 16, as New England was under the grip of an arctic blast, an all-time low temperature of -50° Fahrenheit was recorded for Maine. It was recorded at 7:30 a.m. EST at a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) stream gauge on the Big Black River near Depot Mountain in northwestern Aroostook County. The previous record, -48° Fahrenheit, was set in Van Buren, Maine almost 84 years earlier, on January 19, 1925.
Fixed it.
People need to wake up and sharpen their pitch forks, heat up the tar, and pluck some chickens. The time to act is now.
True, the way I see it the political left has shunned religion and that has left a giant void in the soul they are ideologically unable to confront; to fill it they have subconsciously turned to the old misplaced religion of mother earth with my tagLine as their savior.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Because they have all sold us out to global governance.
This is so frigging last administration.
You’ve hit it right on the head. It’s not science, it’s Lysenkoism.
It’s a shame that outside this forum, not too many people know who Trofim Lysenko was or why it’s important to know.
His momma must have carried him around by the nose holes when he was just a child.......
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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