Posted on 06/01/2011 10:25:22 AM PDT by blog.Eyeblast.tv
On May 31, President Obama said he would nominate John E. Bryson for the position of United States Commerce Secretary. Bryson, who was the former Chairman and CEO of Edison International, spoke in front of the UN on September 1, 2009 at the International Energy Conference and praised California's regulatory system on energy, and called for the same to be applied to the United States as a whole. However, he didn't stop there. He went on to say they should place the same regulations globally:
"The academic debate around this has often been should we send price signals, or should we regulate, and for some this is a negative sense about regulation. The fact is, regulation is setting minimum standards means that markets come to meet those standards and nothing is sold- nothing in the way of new goods is sold-without meeting those standards. So that's step number one, high energy efficiency standards. I believe they should be increased. Interesting thing is the new Obama administration is taking a look and has said encouraging things about adopting these kinds of standards across the United States that would have a huge impact. These ought to have impacts elsewhere around the world. I believe these are applicable to developing countries, just as they are applicable to developed countries, and they make a huge difference. They don't involve, kind of, the responses that we get simply to price signals that are often transitory, that often fade away over time, and in any event are very slow in having impacts. So I argue- number one- for this kind of regulation."
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Only globalists with an ax to grind and bad-mouthing the U.S. way of life will be appointed by this anti-American president.
I’d argue for a rope and a lamp post for this thug.
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He is going to sink this country well before 2012.
Right now in Whatcom county, WA, we are in a battle over a coal terminal that the Obama administration wants very much to build in our county. The sale of the coal to China depends on a weak dollar. If the dollar strengthens, the deal will disappear. China doesn’t need our coal, and the PRB coal is junk coal, anyway.
The Obama administration’s idea of commerce is to export US natural resources to developing nations where the manufacturing and jobs will take place. All of that depends on a weak dollar. Cap and trade is designed to make sure that the manufacturing and jobs go along with the export of the natural resources.
Yeah, California did a wonderful job of regulating their energy markets.
That’s what got Enron so rich!
Another failed Zer0 candidate. Maybe he’ll have to make him a czar if the Senate takes a pass on this stooge’s appointment.
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