Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/06/2009 1:36:43 PM PDT by Scott Martin
When Big Business tells the federal government "yes, tax us more please," you can be pretty confident something shady is going on, and that the consumer will not be the beneficiary of it. In this case it's ownership of major energy providers backing the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill, the proposal that would effectively cap American productivity by trading on fear of global warming.
In the past few weeks both Exelon, the nation's largest gas and electric utility, and PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric) have backed out of the Chamber of Commerce over the business lobby's refusal to bend over to global warming alarmism.
In late August, the Chamber of Commerce called for a public hearing to challenge the "science" of man-made global warming, obviously the last things the alarmists want.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce—the largest business lobby in the United States, and one of the most powerful—is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a public hearing intended to challenge the science of climate change in what Chamber officials are calling “the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century.”
People who would like a little proof that man-made global warming exists, that it would be a bad thing if it does exist, and that it could be reversed if it did exist are steaming mad at the corporate suits of the energy providers, and just a little suspicious of their motivation in begging to be taxed up the wazzoo. A source at Exelon sent me this open letter to Exelon CEO John Rowe, which is currently making the rounds within the company...
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
Why would a business with a monopoly stranglehold over its consumers care about taxes? They would simply pass the increased costs to their customers.
They actually believe that they will be allowed to build new plants under the dems?
They naively think adding cost to coal- and gas-fired plants will stimulate demand for nuclear power- which they won’t be allowed to build....
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Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding! We have a winner! They're okay with that if it means they won't be regulated out of existence.
Fascism, this is how it works ... Starts with crony capitalism.
The good news is you just look at the dates of the EOs and make one EO that nullifys the whole date range. What Obama did...
Morons.
Nuclear plants don't produce carbon. A Carbon cap and trade system will raise the cost of conventional energy. When they discover wind, and solar are not viable to meet the cap and trade requirements, nuclear is going to look pretty good.
The problem I have with this is that it's a backasswards way of going about it. We should be building nuclear plants now to ensure enough energy for the economy regardless of what OPEC does.
Instead we are going to ramp energy costs through the roof in a stupid attempt to make so called green energies viable on a large scale. It's a bet the farm strategy, and when it fails, OPEC is going to have tremendous control over this country. Those high energy costs are going to kill our wounded economy.
The financial planners at the mega corps have nothing to lose by agreeing to trade an artificial commodity, “carbon credit”, created by the government and allocated initially at a government rigged price. The government cannot set the initial price so that the initial holders lose, or no one would participate, and, simultaneously the government’s regulatory demands for CO2 reduction will immediately boost the “market value” of the never-enough credits the government issues. Its a rigged system that will actually cost most, and hurt the most, precisely those companies in need of actually spending money on R&D instead of wasting it on “carbon credits” to keep existing operations within legal, EPA limits.
a political environment driven by Global Warming Alarmists is actually good for people who build nuke plants (unless you are living in a country where energy policy is dictated by musty old Jane Fonda movies). So they are acting in their self-interest, which companies will always do.
Poland refuses to pay poorer nations' climate tab
IF A PEER REVIEW FAILS IN THE WOODS...
Obama puts government on greenhouse-gas diet
Climate bill backers quit Chamber of Commerce (Die, corporate scum!)
Global Warming on Free Republic
I think you missed an IMPORTANT Global warming article/post!
Cosmic Ray Decreases Affect Atmospheric Aerosols And Clouds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356133/posts
They didn’t excerpt the most important paragraph:
“A loss of clouds of 4 or 5 per cent may not sound very much, but it briefly increases the sunlight reaching the oceans by about 2 watt per square metre, and that’s equivalent to all the global warming during the 20th Century.”
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