Al Gore proposes...er blackouts

Island Turtle ^ | 7/17/2008 | Corky Boyd

[Fred Nerks]

now this is really scary:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121538804508931123.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

“Your Carbon Ration Card
July 7, 2008; Page A12
While American politicians mull a carbon cap-and-trade system for industry, our British cousins are already contemplating the next step: personal CO2 rations.

A Parliamentary committee in May proposed giving all British adults “carbon allowances” that they would be required to spend – along with, you know, real money – when buying gasoline, airline tickets, electricity or natural gas. Britons who wanted more credits than they were issued could try to buy them – again, with real money – from those who hadn’t spent their allotment. All of this is supposed to give people a financial incentive to reduce energy consumption and thus their carbon “footprint.” ...

[Fred Nerks]

meanwhile, in Germany -

Killing Jobs to Save the Climate [Euro Carbon Credits]
Spiegel ^ | 7/17/08 | By Kirsten Stumm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047864/posts

“”If that’s the shape the trading will take, we will simply move our cement operation to Ukraine,” a cement factory manager shouted into the lecture hall. “Then there won’t be any trading here, nothing will be produced here anymore — the lights will simply go out here.”

[Berosus]

This reminds of the writer for Time Magazine — I think his name is Joe Klein — who called for getting rid of all air conditioning last week. Obviously he’s a Yankee from a state bordering Canada, if he does not know how much air conditioning changed life in the South. Take away the A/C, and within a few years Rhode Island would have more people than Florida.