Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/26/2009 3:53:34 AM PDT by rellimpank
Communist Godfather Vladimir Lenin is alleged to have famously said, "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
Nowhere is that observation more relevant than in the sorry spectacle taking place in Congress as corporations, in exchange for short-term government handouts, fall over themselves to endorse a carbon dioxide regulation bill that will impose a crushing energy tax on the American people.
Sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), the "cap-and-trade" legislation, called the American Clean Energy and Security Act, would put a cost on carbon dioxide by imposing a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. On May 22, the committee approved the legislation, which will be referred to the House Ways and Means Committee and other committees for consideration.
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Its because they have no loyalty to America or to us.
Rep. Henry Waxman, as a teenager, with too much sun light.
As this animal is to dogs, Henry Waxman is to humans.
Said Jim Owen, EEI’s media-relations director, “There are probably some things that different people want to see tweaked in the legislation, but…we would like to see it get into the end zone.”
HOW about killing it?...HOWZ that for tweaking it? Just follow the money on this thing...who is the financial beneficiary?...
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My own company (a very-large chemical manufacturer) is the worst of this bunch. They market green, Green, GREEN ... while many of the products we produced are very energy-intensive. Overall, I’m not sure how we’d be impacted by cap-and-trade - but I’m not optimistic.
Don’t get me wrong, some of our green-leaning products are very good and really do save money when used. On the other hand, some of them are just dumb. Cellulosic ethanol and bio-butanol provide government grants and great feel-good commercials but they’re unlikely to be large players in the energy equation anytime soon, or perhaps ever.
The product line that really gets me is our ‘sustainable’ fabric spun from genetically modified corn. It’s touted as being 30% from sustainable materials. I wonder who actually buys this stuff and feels proud of themselves? I’d like to say this all to those customers —> “So, you’re interested in ‘green’ clothes? Buy Cotton, Dumba**!”
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