Taxing the Weather

Canada Free Press ^ | March 5, 2009 | Alan Caruba

[Zakeet]

Taxes imposed in the name of global warming are completely bogus. There is no global warming if, by that term, you mean a sudden, dramatic increase in the Earth’s average temperature. The Earth has been cooling for a decade, not warming.

It is incumbent on all of us to email, fax, call, and write our Congress critters and tell them they must vote against any legislation regarding “greenhouse gas emissions” or “global warming.” Tell them that a vote for such legislation will be your vote for whoever runs against them in the next elections.

The Obama administration and Congress is hell bent to cram a “cap and trade” emissions reduction bill down our throats.

In essence it is a hidden tax on the use of all energy by utilities that provide the electricity we use and the energy used by industry to manufacture anything and everything. The rationale is that carbon dioxide (CO2) is emitted by the burning of coal, oil or natural gas, thus contributing to global warming.

The known science regarding CO2 amply demonstrates it plays no role in climate change except to react to it. It does not drive climate change, but shows up hundreds of years after any warming. CO2 is routinely absorbed and released by the Earth’s oceans and always has been. It constitutes barely 0.038% of the atmosphere.

Would you accept a tax on sunshine? Rain? Snow? A carbon tax is the equivalent of taxing the weather. It taxes the natural emissions that occur whenever energy is used.

[Zakeet]

Just like this man, Carbon credits are snake oil. They have no real value. They will absorb and waste billions of dollars that would otherwise be applied to business expansion and an increase in the plants needed to generate the nation’s growing need for more electricity.

[safetysign]

It looks like Al’s tongue is a hard on in his mouth.

[edzo4]

see once they tax smoking into extinction they will need to replace that revenue, they will pass a tax on breathing or specifically exhaling

[goldstategop]

The entire scheme is designed to control our lives. It has nothing to do with reducing "global warming." Liberals want to tell us how we can dress, what we can eat, where we can drive, how we can work and where we can live. For them, its the power, stupid!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[pleikumud]

There is a great article in the latest issue of The American Spectator (March 2009) which totally blows away the Gorons’ theory of man-made global warming.

[PeaRidge]

You don’t have a link to that, do you?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[pleikumud]

I think you have to subscribe to get March issue online, or buy it in bookstore.

http://spectator.org/issues/february-2009