Americans Wake Up to Obama’s Carbon Emission Scam

IsraPundit ^ | 3/7/09 | Bill Levinson

[Winged Hussar]

We reported previously that the U.S. Climate Action Partnership's (USCAP's) members include some of the country's worst-managed corporations, as demonstrated by their need for government bailouts. These include former USCAP members AIG and Lehman Brothers, as well as government-dependent entities like General Motors and Chrysler. Our position is that companies that need government mandates to force people to buy their products or services contribute nothing to society, and they should not be in business. If General Electric, for example, cannot engineer cost-effective wind turbines and solar panels, and must instead get the government to require businesses and utilities to buy its products, it is a liability to the country and should not be in business. This message comes across clearly in Kimberley Strassel's "If the Cap Fits," from the Wall Street Journal.

GE makes all the solar equipment and wind turbines (at $2 million a pop) that utilities would have to buy under a climate regime. GE’s revenue from environmental products long ago passed the $10 billion mark, and it doesn’t take much “ecomagination” to see why Mr. Immelt is leading the pack of climate profiteers.

Americans are fortunately waking up to Barack Obama's plans to raise prices for consumers and knife the unions and workers who helped elect him by imposing carbon taxes that would enrich special interests (USCAP members) while driving energy-intensive businesses offshore.

Kimberley Strassel's "The Climate Change Lobby Has Regrets: Cap and trade is going to cost them" in yesterday's Wall Street Journal describes the problem perfectly.

[Winged Hussar]

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[lakertaker]

They better wake up.

The problem with these ideas is once they become part of the budget they become almost permanent. Look at Social Security and Medicare as just two examples
Both programs face huge shortfalls but all attempts to reform them are fought.
So they sit and fester and threaten the economic and financial well being of this country, eventually.

This is why no government can ever provide a nanny state

[WKUHilltopper]

Gore-Bull warming...nothing more than an excuse to tax and control you. So you’ll get what you deserve—live in a cardboard box—one, of course, of their choosing.

And I’m proud to be an American where at least I’m slapped around...

[steelyourfaith]

For the political professions their push for the nanny state is a marketing scheme to expand the business they are in, Big Government. The rest of us be damned.

[brianr10]

It’s about time!

[Gulf War One]

OBAMA...One Big-Ass Mistake, America

[Bean Counter]