Posted on 03/31/2009 11:38:56 AM PDT by Red Steel
WASHINGTON The debate on global warming and energy policy accelerated on Tuesday as two senior House Democrats unveiled a far-reaching bill to cap heat-trapping gases and move the country quickly from dependence on coal and oil.
But the bill leaves crucial questions unanswered and as of now has no Republican support. For those reasons, it marks the beginning, not the end, of debate in the current Congress on how to deal with two of President Obamas top priorities, climate change and energy.
The draft measure, written by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, sets a slightly more ambitious goal for capping greenhouse gases than President Obamas proposal, requiring a reduction in emissions of 20 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels. President Obamas plan envisioned a 14 percent reduction by 2020. Both would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases linked to global warming by roughly 80 percent by 2050.
The Waxman-Markey bill, known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act, emerges at a time when many Americans, and their representatives, are wary of wide-ranging environmental legislation that could raise energy costs and potentially cripple industry. The bill also comes as the Environmental Protection Agency is about to exert regulatory authority over greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The bill would pre-empt that effort and create a new cap-and-trade scheme to control carbon emissions.
The new bill would require every region of the country to produce a quarter of its electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal by 2025. A number of lawmakers from some regions of the country, particularly the Southeast, call that goal unrealistic because the natural resources and technology to meet it do not currently exist.
The bill also calls for modernization
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“...gasoline, electricity and food have been targeted...”
That’s right. Energy, Healthcare, the food we eat, and our environment.
They intend to Farm us like Ranchers maintain their animals.
It’s all about POWER.
Very soon it will be beyond the Pitchfork and Tar stage.
exactly... This way beyond what many think. Get a clue, folks.
the sheeple will believe what O and his media goons tell them. Imagine a daily drumbeat of “Price gouging?” headlines with Democrats in Congress threatening hearings and with Obama saying those companies are being “irresponsible”.
The sheeple will buy it.
[. . . it’s not those countries that will be paying those ‘trade sanctions” (read import levy) it’s the American consumer. . .]
True. But if the tariff is high enough it raises the price of an item to a level that is less attractive to buyers, reducing the volume of sales of the imported item.
It doesn’t end here. The Dims want a flat Carbon Tax, to double the income taxes, and to double the corporate tax rates so they can have their socialized healthcare. Meanwhile, they cut our military budget, allow illegal aliens and try to ban all guns.
I’d say the chance that a Patriot March not happening is diminishing rapidly. :0)
My mother, who we are caring for, suffers from Lupis - there’s no way we can get by without providing A/C during the summer months.
“And that the Republicans like for them to have inexpensive energy and for them to keep more of their paychecks?
And why cant the Republicans get that simple message out to Americans?”
Because, based on the behavior of the past administration, WHILE it had the majority in BOTH houses of Congress, the Pubbies DIDN’T TRY to convey that message. They conveyed the message that the Pubbies were the Rat LITE party and the electorate responded to them: If we want Rats, we’ll elect REAL Rats, not Rat-wannabees. And they did.
Very true. The Democrats will never be blamed. The media will put them on TV and they will holler for more government control of their government controlled government control.
Believe me, Wyoming is very much aware of the impact of all of the control tax the Dims want. That is why we did NOT vote for an Obama Nation.
We drill for that the same way we drill for oil. Natural gas wells are on the hit list too.
Oh I know. Some of our leases got canceled last week.
One of my all-time favorite quotes (and I dont know who said it) is "the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
“All of your klimate kreditss are belong to us, sschnell!”
Earth Hour in Mississippi Part 1
Earth Hour in Mississippi Part 2
Outdoorsmen have tough time agreeing on climate change
AP Continues to Perpetuate US-Kyoto 1997 Mythology
Global Warming on Free Republic
“Al Gores wet dream is about to be reality.”
Not likely.
Gore, the whore’s only objective is to make money from the scam.
The more that is done to implement the Marxist policy,
the less he makes.
Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey
Nosferatu and Trotsky
“A year or so after that, the utilities will be declared insolvent and will have to be “bailed out” (they are, after all, too big to fail) and we’ll have government owned-and-run utility companies across the board.”
By golly, Ollie, you made a good point, and reminded us
that the goal of the Marxist Democrat Party is to nationalize
and socialize everything and make this the USSA.
With their Marxist president, it will be so fast and easy.
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