McCain Urges Free-Market Principles to Reduce Global Warming

My Way News ^ | 5-12-08 | Glen Johnson

[webschooner]

This man is an idiot, and if elected, he will destroy the economy.

[Sprite518]

More validation why I will never vote for this Sell out.

[JRochelle]

I am pro-global warming.

I woke up to 43 degrees this morning.

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...argues that global warming is undeniable

It is in the 40s, in the middle of May, on the east coast. There is ice falling in Pittsburgh now. How's that for "deniable". BTW, McCain does not argue that global warming is undeniable. He says it is possible.

[TommyDale]

Earth to McCain! Earth to McCain! It is already cooling...Please read the scientific evidence!

[TomGuy]

while adhering to free-market principles

McCain's major solution is to implement a cap-and-trade program

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Which is it? Free-market principles or implementation of cap-and-trade (i.e., regulations)?

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Just weeks ago, McCain was advocating mandates. And saying all this green is not going to cost the taxpayers.

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This is McCain (from This Week, February 17, 2008) [emphasis added]:

STEPHANOPOULOS: How about on the issue of climate change? Because you and Sen. [Joe] Lieberman [I-Conn.] have come out for a bill which would have mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases.

MCCAIN: Gradual reductions, yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: But they are mandatory.

MCCAIN: Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you sticking by that?

MCCAIN: What I mean by that is that it's cap-and-trade, that there will be incentives for people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It's a free-market approach. The Europeans are using it now. We did it in the case of addressing acid rain -- look, if we do that, we stimulate green technologies. I have great faith in the American industry. General Electric, the world's largest corporation, has announced they're dedicated to green technologies. This will be profit-making business.

It won't cost the American taxpayer. It will make profits, because we'll move forward with the innovation and ability of American industry to address this issue.

No wonder McCain admits he doesn't know much about economics. Who does he think is going to pay for GE making all that profit, since he says it isn't the American taxpayer? Will President McCain just mandate that profits will henceforth grow on trees? Where is the profit from those mandated fluorescent bulbs coming from? Is McCain secretly suggesting he will set up a program to provide free fluorescent bulbs to the American people, since he says "It won't cost the American taxpayer"?

[Hint, JohnnyMc: Consumers. And a majority of consumers are also taxpayers. So, all that corporate profit will cost the taxpayers.]

[The Great RJ]

McCain "... argues that global warming is undeniable ..."

Dear Senator,
Many prominent scientists and climatologists are now questioning whether global warming is real or an aberration in how the data was collected and interpreted. The link between CO2 in the atmosphere and increasing global temperatures is not proven and if it has any role at all it is in combination with many other factors which are simply beyond human control. To irreparably damage the US economy pursuing the phantom of man made global warming is unconscionable.

[KansasGirl]

How I am ever going to bring myself to pull the lever for this guy.

[Will88]

“{The Arizona senator promised to challenge China and India, two economic rivals who are fueling their challenge to U.S. market supremacy with heavily polluting fuels such as coal, gas and oil.”

Here’s a suggestion. If you’re serious about challenging China and India, propose legislation that imposes tariffs on all goods imported from nations using “heavily polluting fuels” and which have lax environmental standards in general. That’ll get their attention.

Ah, I knew you weren’t serious. We can’t do anything that complicates corporations’ search for the world’s cheapest labor and lowest environment standards as places to produce products to be sold in the USA.

[TomGuy]

Earth to McCain! Earth to McCain! It is already cooling...Please read the scientific evidence!

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A consensus of scientists say there is global warming.

Until the middle of the Seventeenth Century, a consensus of scientists said that the sun and planets revolved around Earth.

[Imagine what future textbooks will say about the Grand Global Climate Change hoaxes [cooling, then warming] of the late 20ieth and early 21st centuries.]

[G.Mason]

Simply more B/S from the "straight talk express".

I'd like to see that socialist RINO get beaten in November.

Somehow it seems better to get it in the chest than stabbed in the back.

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE

[Da Coyote]

If he used the word “undeniable”, he has proven himself an idiot. Another brick in the wall. Please, Repubs, ditch this clown and give us a real candidate. We’ll respond in two ways: 1) you’ll get money, 2) we’ll actually vote.

[rhombus]

Sorry McCain... you can’t pander to your base and pander to your opposition at the same time. Although you are a Democrat in reality, you are running as a Republican and this strategy just won’t work.

[SueRae]

A Kyoto-like agreement would be a disaster fr the US. Countries like China would ignore such a pact, anyway. However, if McCain’s answer to global warming and (energy dependence) promotes nuclear energy, then I support that.

[MrB]

Yeah, but it’s not cooling as much as it would have if it weren’t for the evil capitalist countries [USA] putting out so much plant food... er, “greenhouse gases”,

and when this current cooling cycle is over - watch out, a runaway greenhouse effect is inevitable.

/sarcasifitwereneeded

[TomGuy]

I'd like to see that socialist RINO get beaten in November.

That may be the best bitter pill the GOP can get. It may wake them up and cause them to return to their base. Their losses of both chambers of Congress didn't awaken then in 2006. Now, they may have more Congressional losses AND very probably will lose the White House, as well.

[MrB]

Any interference or pressure in the market by an outside force that pays no cost for the effects of that pressure

costs those in the system unnecessarily.

[MrB]

Perhaps you could read the rulings of the Clinton appointees to the USSC and then tell us whether you should pull for McCain. Just sayin’

[He’d BETTER pick someone like Hunter or Thompson for a veep, then perhaps retire in 2 yrs]

[sergeantdave]

So while fighting the islam terrorists at the front door, Mr. McCain will let the communists in the backdoor to destroy our economy.

How about we give Alaska back to the Russians? We aren’t using it anyway.

[MrB]

Building just a few nuclear plants would put us in “compliance” with Kyoto immediately when they come online.