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Obama Proposes Deep Greenhouse Gas Cuts
Town Hall ^ | 10/8/07 | HOLLY RAMER

Posted on 10/09/2007 8:35:28 AM PDT by teddyballgame

"As president, I will set a hard cap on all carbon emissions at a level that scientists say is necessary to curb global warming, an 80 percent reduction by 2050," he said.

He proposed a modified "cap and trade" approach to reduce emissions, requiring businesses to buy allowances if they pollute, creating an incentive to reduce energy usage.

"No business will be allowed to emit any greenhouse gases for free," he said. "Businesses don't own the sky, the public does, and if we want them to stop polluting it, we have to put a price on all pollution."

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., has said she is intrigued by the carbon auction system but has stopped short of endorsing it. Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut has proposed taxing polluters for their carbon emissions.

Separate from the energy proposal, Obama joined rival John Edwards Monday in criticizing Clinton for voting for a Senate resolution that urges the State Department to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization. continued...

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; gorebullwarning; husseinobama; lendmeyourears; moron; whatanidiot
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"No business will be allowed to emit any greenhouse gases for free,"

Be afraid, be very afraid!

1 posted on 10/09/2007 8:35:30 AM PDT by teddyballgame
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“Businesses don’t own the sky, the public does, and if we want them to stop polluting it, we have to put a price on all pollution.”

He meant to say the government owns the sky, not the people. Must have been a slip.


2 posted on 10/09/2007 8:37:00 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: teddyballgame
This guy wants to become dictator, not president.

Carolyn

3 posted on 10/09/2007 8:38:23 AM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: teddyballgame

So, he’s saying that if he is elected, he will put everyone on unemployment and shut down all manufacturing, energy, transportation and farming.


4 posted on 10/09/2007 8:39:01 AM PDT by mak5
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To: teddyballgame

***He meant to say the government owns the sky, not the people. Must have been a slip.***

Flip-flop?


5 posted on 10/09/2007 8:39:14 AM PDT by wastedyears (George Orwell was a clairvoyant.)
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To: teddyballgame

Elect Democrats, raise taxes, and then it’ll get so cold that hell will freeze over!


6 posted on 10/09/2007 8:40:17 AM PDT by gunservative
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Wonder when Obamarama comes up with the next step, the “Respiration Tax”, since every time we exhale we contribute BOTH C02 AND Water Vapor to the Global Warming Crisis. Surely the RICH MUST pay their FAIR SHARE.....

/sarc?


7 posted on 10/09/2007 8:40:41 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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8 posted on 10/09/2007 8:40:56 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: teddyballgame

So does that mean Obama is going to quit smoking?


9 posted on 10/09/2007 8:41:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
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To: teddyballgame

I would venture to say that the primary cause of CO2 emanating
from a business is from the employees. Once one becomes an “employee” of a business, they are no longer “the public”. So they will have to be taxed as well.


10 posted on 10/09/2007 8:41:44 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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i waiting for the campaign against di-hydrogen oxide to begin.


11 posted on 10/09/2007 8:41:48 AM PDT by tired1 (responsibility without authority is slavery!)
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When you can squeeze anymore taxes out of the poeple, just create a market then tax the pigsnot out of it!!

Coming soon to a Carbon Market near you:

I can see it now, Commodities Brokers going apes#1t over New York Carbon Emissions Futures. What do you figure the Commissions on those sales would be? I’ll betcha a jillion new liberal millionaires will be created almost overnight.

Oh and they’ll be teaching the little kids in school that becoming a Carbon Futures Broker is the wave of the future and their it’s big chance to make a difference and help the environment for their children’s children!!!

Then, here comes the Big Uncle with his Carbon Tax. And we all know that the company doesn’t pay that tax, it’s passed onto the consumer.

Americans really WILL buy anything, and right now Obama’s selling the new juice.


12 posted on 10/09/2007 8:45:53 AM PDT by RedRightReturn (Global Warming is the new Eugenics...and Al Gore is the new Margaret Sanger)
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their it’s = it’s their


13 posted on 10/09/2007 8:46:41 AM PDT by RedRightReturn (Global Warming is the new Eugenics...and Al Gore is the new Margaret Sanger)
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N I C E !!!!


14 posted on 10/09/2007 8:47:26 AM PDT by RedRightReturn (Global Warming is the new Eugenics...and Al Gore is the new Margaret Sanger)
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To: teddyballgame
Basic References:

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

Other References:

Antarctic Temperature Trend 1982-2004:


This map (left) shows key areas of Antarctica, including the vast East Antarctic ice sheet. The image on the right shows which areas of the continent's ice are thickening (coloured yellow and red) and thinning (coloured blue). © (Left)British Antarctic Survey, (Right)Science

15 posted on 10/09/2007 8:47:53 AM PDT by sourcery (Referring a "social conservative" to the Ninth Amendment is like showing the Cross to Dracula.)
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To: teddyballgame

Latest Weather Channel Headline:
OBAMA SUCKS UP GORE’S GLOBAL FLATULENCE!


16 posted on 10/09/2007 8:48:01 AM PDT by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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To: teddyballgame

If B Hussein Obama is serious, I have a suggestion.

Duct Tape Joe Biden’s mouth.


17 posted on 10/09/2007 8:48:51 AM PDT by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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""As president, I will set a hard cap on all carbon emissions at a level that scientists say is necessary to curb global warming, an 80 percent reduction by 2050," he said. "

Exactly which scientists would that be Obama, the ones who make their living by way of global warming hysteria?

What about all the other scientists and meteorologists who refute those claims? Are you sure your knowledgeable enough to determine who is right and who is wrong considering there are literally thousands of PhD's out there who can't decide?

Who ever said this guy was ready to sit at the grownup table at a time like this needs their head examined.

18 posted on 10/09/2007 8:49:10 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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“”No business will be allowed to emit any greenhouse gases for free,” he said. “Businesses don’t own the sky, the public does, and if we want them to stop polluting it, we have to put a price on all pollution.””

Hey Obama, can they exhale? Oh and what about those trash to steam plants? Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas.


19 posted on 10/09/2007 8:51:58 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., has said she is intrigued by the carbon auction system but has stopped short of endorsing it.

That's because she remembers that it's the economy, stupid. She's not going to risk her re-election bid by making a bunch of short-sighted Greenies happy. ;-)

20 posted on 10/09/2007 8:53:22 AM PDT by rhombus
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