Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/26/2009 7:03:15 PM PDT by Ronin
The Democratic Party of Japan will pledge a 25 percent cut in Japan's greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 from 1990 levels in its manifesto for the upcoming national campaign, party officials said Sunday.
Bidding to wrest power from the Liberal Democratic Party-led ruling coalition, the DPJ has decided to set a more ambitious emissions goal than the 8 percent target set last month by Prime Minister Taro Aso.
The DPJ's target, however, is the same as that pledged by the LDP's coalition partner, New Komeito.
The DPJ's strategy would entail the adoption of a cap-and-trade system under which each company's emissions would be capped at a certain level and quotas could be traded between companies, the officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at search.japantimes.co.jp ...
Either they are cynically using the issue for electioneering purposes, in which case they are just as stupidly corrupt as they claim the LDP is, or they actually believe this is a good idea, in which case they are too frigging stupid to play with kindergarten scissors, let alone be in office.
Alors! Round up the usual suspects!!!
They need to stop digging!
Depends whether the DP wants to destroy their own country, or the democratic party’s country (over here).
Well cutting CO2 is not as hard when your population is declining.
How IDIOTIC can one get!!
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