Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/12/2008 10:25:21 PM PDT by parousia
GOP presidential nominee John McCain is using the idea of global togetherness to promote “a cap-and-trade system” to battle climate change. He said “Americans and Europeans need to get serious about substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years or we will hand over a much-diminished world to our grandchildren.”
According to the Arizona senator, whose opinion column appeared in the March 19 Financial Times, the United States needs to work with Europe to create a replacement for the Kyoto treaty.
“We need a successor to Kyoto, a cap-and-trade system that delivers the necessary environmental impact in an economically responsible manner.” He said America needs to be willing to be “persuaded” by our European allies. McCain’s column was headlined “America must be a good role model.”
However, he never addressed the potential costs of his proposal.
McCain talked about Americans and Europeans leading together but only said he wanted to “encourage the participation of the rest of the world, including most importantly, the developing economic powerhouses of China and India.”
But experience has already shown that government intervention in environmental issues can have negative consequences. Ethanol mandates have artificially inflated demand for corn and affected grocery prices. And recent studies have shown ethanol isn’t any better for the environment than burning fossil fuels.
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John McCain is using the idea of global togetherness to promote “a cap-and-trade system” to battle climate change. He said “Americans and Europeans need to get serious about substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years or we will hand over a much-diminished world to our grandchildren.”
McCain’s Cap and Trade system would allows for gradual reduction of emissions would control business production and create more bureaucracy to issue permits...require more accountability of govt to meet goals and deadlines.This is 1 step short of nationalizing businesses.
After they go after the big boys, Cap and Trade will be applied to you...you will be tracked as they drive down your standard of living.
Oh shut up McCain. You aren’t helping getting yourself elected with stupid talk like that. At the very least, you could try keep up to date on the “global warming” farce instead of trying to be “popular” and parroting that idiotic nonsense..
Please God, send us a miracle, send us an independent candidate to vote for.
(Shakes head. Walks off into sunset.)
I’m partial to the new “Climate Change Credit Corporation” and the “Change Deficit Reduction Fund” that are part of the Senate bill.
I give them credit for knowing how to create huge bureaucracies. Pricetags, nor the Constitution, ever seem to matter. If only McCain would apply some of his new-found outrage for activist-judges to kick the activist-Senators in the arse. If only he had one nth the passion for controlling the border that he does for controlling the weather (Chasing windmills seem to be his preferred choice).
When it comes to OPM, they seem to have no limits. What’s a few trillion among friends, anyway.
I’ve heard people actually advocating preemptive measures to combat global warming, such as bioengineering co2 eating super-algae or setting off nuclear weapons to trigger a mild nuclear winter effect. All they need is a president stupid enough to try it.
But not China...
Check out this link:
World's 10 Most Polluted Places
Whay are the enviro-nuts not complaining about these cities?
Talk about hubris: it’s impossible to fight natural global phenomena / cycles & trends.
McCain has absolutely no business being anywhere near the oval office. If Obama is elected, McCain has no one to blame but himself. I certainly won’t vote for the fool.
McCain is rock stupid and if anyone could lose to Obama, it would be McCain. I can’t vote for this man so I surely hope he knows what he is doing. When he figures out the independents and mushy middle won’t get him elected he might make some overtures to conservatives. Personally, his overtures will be too late. The GOP has lost its collective mind and has jumped the rails. Is a decent candidate, a semi-capable leader too much to ask? Have we really come this far to piss it all away in one election cycle?
....hey, maybe they can go after the fast food industry,....
, or the sports industry, maybe carbon credits for baseball stadium lights.....
or the music industry
cap and trade snoop dogg
We will know who to blame if McCain and the rest of the idiots in Washington tank the economy over a global warming mirage.
I’m about fed up with the Pubbie candidate.
McLame is efficiently completing the following tasks at America's expense:
1.) Make it unpopular to be a testosterone-based, heterosexual man.
2.) Make it impossible to cover the cost of driving a V8 with a 300+ Horsepower Engine.
3.) Make it wrong to love American solidarity and our National identity.
4.) Call everyone a "bunch of bigots" if they disagree with his plans.
5.) Give Conservatives the middle finger on everything else.
6.) Pander, pander and pander some more to everyone but white people. Make the white Americans feel guilty for existing.
etc, etc, etc...
This is one of the three major reasons that I can’t even ‘hold my nose and vote’ for this arrogant, ignorant lunatic.
One of the reasons that the Republican Party as a whole won’t get a dime from me. I’ve been giving DIRECTLY to the few sane, conservative candidates left in the GOP, but the rest of them deserve to lose.
Someone once posted onto the forums that McCain is mediocre at everything he does, and whether he knows it or not, he is extremely arrogant about it.
If you call him on his mediocrity, out comes the Vietnam POW card and you have to shut up right then and there.
End of story.
I wonder if that card will work during his fight against Obama in November?
I’ll save my farts for him. fu-kin idiot
Does McStrange really want to be president?
This guy is imploding. Who first McCain or Obama?
Sickening.
A friend on Capitol Hill told me ten years ago that whenever there was a negative comment about McCain in the press, his staff had to devote a week to getting him down off the wall. A severely damaged neurotic.
McCain is dumb. And most of his energy goes into moral preening. Listen to his speeches. The primary subject is how morally superior McCain is to other Republicans.
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