[mreerm]

Does this mean that it will be legal to inhale but will be made illegal to exhale?

[NMEwithin]

Stop talking...you are harming the children ;)

[San Jacinto]

It means that your electric and natural gas bills will go up at least 40%. You will look back fondly on the days of gasoline at merely $2.50 per gallon. The cost of everything which requires energy to produce (which is everything) will go up. Manufacturing plants in the U.S. will shut down, and those products will be produced in other countries (still on the same "globe" however). Actual entrepreneurial and productive jobs will be lost. There will be hoards of new bureaucracies (those famous new "green jobs") to harrass and stifle growth. The central government will become ever more powerful and omnipresent.

You will still be allowed to breathe, which will allow you to continue to live. You are needed in order to send to D.C. what little money you will have left.

All in the name of a massive hoax.

[3catsanadog]

Not only that - the baked bean industry will be hit particularly hard because I'm sure we will be forced to purchase flatulence moniters to install in our homes. Any flatulence created above a certain limit will be taxed.

Course those of us with comfortable incomes could buy credits and continue to buy all the beans we want.

[b4its2late]

Does this mean that it will be legal to inhale but will be made illegal to exhale?

No, it just means it won't be free anymore.