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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“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.”
Your right, they will be blaming Bush
for the next 50 years.
He is one ugly son of a bitch.
Next to Waxman, a decomposing corpse looks like Clark Gable.
Half my paycheck will go to taxes and the rest to pay for energy bills, food that will increase God only knows how much more, gasoline will go up to obscene levels. And my employer just froze raises for the next 18 months - said they will reconsider whether they will reinstate merit raises or not then. I have to find a much cheaper place to live. I don’t want to have to work 50-60 hours a week just to survive.
Yep yep...and this is just the beginning...they’re desensitizing the citizenry to the nationalization of private industry by villifying the businesses and then “saving” us from their collapse...once it’s commonplace, the federal government will get bolder and bolder, acquiring utility companies, telecom, and eventualy agriculture.
Then they’ll have us by the collective balls. (pun DEFINITELY intended)
And why cant the Republicans get that simple message out to Americans?
I used to ask the same thing. I think I get it now...
At this point I would argue that Americans get that simple message quite well. It's the rest of the vermin who live and vote here - many of whom despise everything this country was founded upon, and the rest of whom would gladly trade their freedom for a handout - who won't get it.
As I once read: "Better to starve free than be a fat slave." That was the message of our forefathers, and it's STILL the message of REAL Americans today. The people who truly believe that and live that way ALREADY get it.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Obama: “You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”
http://www.qando.net/Details.aspx?Entry=9612
Ambitious - what it takes to tirelessly perpetuate a fraud.
Ideology posing as science.
Answer: Use a whip.
And the MSM would be sure to run those ads /s
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