We don't need electricity, a tiny piece of coal'll do just fine."
Posted on 12/12/2009 9:34:31 PM PST by Lorianne
The crazy, progress-stalling carbon cuts being proposed at Copenhagen just aren’t going to happen – and it’s a good thing too. ___ In September, Steven F Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute put the proposed carbon cuts into perspective in an article for the Wall Street Journal: ‘For the US, the 80 per cent target means reducing fossil-fuel greenhouse-gas emissions to a level the nation last experienced in 1910.’ (2) However, in 1910, the population of America was 92million. Today, it is around 300million. In 2050, the US Census Bureau estimates the US will have 420million people (3). What that means for greenhouse gas emissions, argues Hayward, is that on ‘a per-capita basis, we’d have to go back to the level of about 1875’.
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I keep hoping the continued insistence on draconian cuts based on carbon in the face of climategate, will be democrats’ complete undoing.
Steampunk enthusiasts would not mind going back to 1875. Replace computers with Babbage’s Difference Engine. ;)
Do you know how much H2O that would emit?
1875 might not be so bad. That was the last time my Congressional district voted for a Republican.
LOL- I feel sorry for you- our state isn’t much better- I think it was 1876 that we voted for a republican- seems some states who constantly vote democrat are gluttons for punishment
I’m in TN-5 (Nashville). Which Congressional district are you in (or Congressmember) ? I could tell you for certain when yours last went GOP.
Was in maine- We do have republicans in name only there- been that way for quite soem time- that is a lost state now- all the ecofreaks are movign i nthere- gonna be a clone of VT soon
Odious RINOs aside, the last time they had GOP members in the House was until 1995 in the 2nd (rural North) and 1995-97 in the 1st (Portland and ‘burbs). Now, the last time they had a Conservative Republican, well, that you have to go back awhile... Dave Emery in the 1st (1975-83) scored pretty well (he missed beating the odious George Mitchell in ‘82 for the Senate). Jock McKernan, his successor, was a liberal RINO (Olympia’s hubby). Jim Longley, Jr. scored a fairly respectable 71% Conservative rating during his 2 years in the ‘90s, but he got tossed after a single term for the moonbat Tom Allen. As for the 2nd district, you’d probably have to go back to the ‘60s or ‘50s to find the last Conservative there... maybe longer. Maine’s GOP is still fairly strong and has a sizeable presence when you consider that the party is completely dead in nearby Massachusetts (where they’ve elected no Republicans federally in almost 16 years and have a 90% (no joke) Democrat legislature and zero GOP statewide officeholders, and just 1 Mayor of any size).
Yep- Mass is a lost cause for sure- It’s a strong irish state, and usually the Irish vote democratic- Maine is a metling pot state with lots of french canadiens, which as we know, are quite liberal, but also lots of english, some irish, as well as many other thnicities- but lately it’s been seeign an influx of Bostonians who are escaping the ‘city’ andm ovign down maine- tryign to claim it as their own private rich folks’ playground (kindal ike oregon and montana- rich move to the country and try to rule the roost- don’t want to socialize with ‘the locals’ and shut down huge blocs just for themselves- posting land that has remained open for decades to locals- I guess most states are like that- just seems worse in some states- and the political climate definately changes when the rich begin moving into ‘their own private playgrounds’
The Republicans did themselves little favors in Massachusetts (which was once one of the most Republican states in the country) towards Irish Catholics. They remained snobbishly Brahmin WASP, and worse, when the party moved to the left, excluded Conservative Catholics that would’ve gravitated to the party almost anywhere else, so now the moribund GOP is made up of rich liberals that can’t get elected dogcatcher. With nowhere to go, the Irish Catholic Dems got trapped in the party and were all dragged off to lefty-land, at least those that stayed in the state and didn’t vote with their feet, which a lot of Conservative Bay Staters did.
You still dream of succeeding President Jeff Davis in 1867 ? ;-D
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