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Bush: Kyoto treaty would 'wreck' U.S. economy
Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | June 30, 2005

Posted on 06/30/2005 7:43:20 PM PDT by bayourod

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — President Bush said in a Danish TV interview aired today that adhering to the Kyoto treaty on climate change would have "wrecked" the U.S. economy.

"Kyoto would have wrecked our economy. I couldn't in good faith have signed Kyoto," Bush told the Danish Broadcasting Corp., noting that the treaty did not include other nations — including India and China — that he called "big polluters."

Earlier, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said climate change was likely the most serious threat to the globe and that there would be no solution without U.S. involvement. The United States is the world's biggest producer of greenhouse gases, which have been blamed for contributing to global warming.

"The only solution to this is going to come as one that includes America," Blair told a London audience of young people for an MTV special.

Later in the Danish interview, Bush called the U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East a "national security problem."

"We're hooked on oil from the Middle East, which is a national security problem and an economic security problem," Bush said, adding that the United States was looking at alternatives fuels.


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That's what I like about President Bush. No apologies, no justifications, no spin, no excuses, just the straight truth. "It wasn't in our best interest, and if you don't like it, too bad"
1 posted on 06/30/2005 7:43:21 PM PDT by bayourod
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At one point, the Kyoto Protocol exempted 99 of the 129 signees from the protocol. That makes as much sense as exempting 99 of 129 kids from the don't pee in the pool protocol.


2 posted on 06/30/2005 7:48:49 PM PDT by Keli Kilohana (Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
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To: bayourod

At one point, the Kyoto Protocol exempted 99 of the 129 signees from the protocol. That makes as much sense as exempting 99 of 129 kids from the don't pee in the pool protocol.


3 posted on 06/30/2005 7:49:10 PM PDT by Keli Kilohana (Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
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To: bayourod

Calling it as it is!


4 posted on 06/30/2005 7:49:33 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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...which have been blamed for contributing to global warming..

I thought it caused it? And from I've been reading, it sounds more like global warming is causing greenhouse gasses.
5 posted on 06/30/2005 7:50:18 PM PDT by MarkeyD (I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: bayourod

I read somewhere that for us to comply with the treaty we would need to remove something like 30% of the cars from the road almost immediately to cut emmissions to a compliance level. It was either that or pay billions to be distributed to countries that didn't have to comply.

Whatever the case it's stupid.


6 posted on 06/30/2005 7:52:35 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
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>>>"Kyoto treaty would 'wreck' U.S. economy"<<<

No $hit?

When will MSM latch on to this concept?

Hell it was designed to wreck the US economy and that why it is promoted by Watermelons and Liberals alike.

TT


7 posted on 06/30/2005 7:55:29 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: bayourod

"wreck our economy..." is the wrong answer even if it is true. It would have been nice if he said that he would not implement Kyoto because its based on dodgy science.


8 posted on 06/30/2005 7:57:00 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: bayourod
Well said.

Regarding the post: >> the treaty did not include other nations — including India and China — that he called "big polluters

Because they are developing like we are, and they would likely tell the greenies to go piss in their hat.

This treaty was designed specifically to retard American industry, nothing else. When it was written they thought there were enough nitwits in America to accept it. There were not, and in 2006 there will be even less.
9 posted on 06/30/2005 7:58:36 PM PDT by mmercier (Incentives and power equations)
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Bush: Kyoto treaty would 'wreck' U.S. economy >>>

Yes, it would, he's absolutely right.


10 posted on 06/30/2005 7:59:03 PM PDT by Coleus ("Woe unto him that call evil good and good evil"-- Isaiah 5:20-21)
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To: DEADROCK

I wish he could have said that we would implement Kyoto the minute scientists can predict the weather for the next week with at least 70% accuracy.


11 posted on 06/30/2005 8:02:00 PM PDT by soloNYer (McCain's Moderates= people who don't even know who their OWN senators are.)
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To: MarkeyD

Its important to recognize that the USA absorbs more CO2 than we give off. We have more trees and plant life now than 150 years ago.


12 posted on 06/30/2005 8:08:40 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Now, now -- no fair bothering the green weenies and the econazis with crummy ol' facts...which they will in any case ignore.


13 posted on 06/30/2005 8:22:24 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: bayourod

America first.


14 posted on 06/30/2005 9:09:36 PM PDT by henderson field
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To: henderson field

The Danish television stations will show President Bush saying that but the American stations won't.


15 posted on 06/30/2005 9:13:07 PM PDT by bayourod (Unless we get 40% of the Hispanic vote in 2008, President Hillary will take all your guns away.)
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There IS NO global warming.

Just a bunch of Fat, Rich, Devil worshipers wanting to strip
America of her wealth and make us bigger slaves
than we already are.

Kyoto is just an attempt at a Marxist tyrannical global
government run by the likes of a Mugabe.
16 posted on 06/30/2005 9:14:30 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: bayourod

We ought to get out of the 1967 UN Treaty, too, because that has wrecked the space development economy before it could even get started. It's possibly not too late.


17 posted on 06/30/2005 9:14:51 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: DaveTesla

I would bet that if the entire human race disappeared tonight from earth that it would make no difference at all to the global climate, not immediately, not later.


18 posted on 06/30/2005 9:16:42 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: bayourod
Rod, you are so right, sir.

Our President Dubya has been rock solid in defending the American people against an economically punishing Kyoto protocol.

19 posted on 06/30/2005 9:21:06 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: RightWhale
Right you are.

Remember the Ozone scare?

The y2K scare where the coffee pot was going to freak out and kill us all?

The running out of oil scare?

The overpopulation scare?

The global famine running out of food scare?

When are we sheeple going to get wise to the village witch
doctor and run the old fraud out of town?
20 posted on 06/30/2005 9:22:04 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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