Posted on 06/27/2009 12:01:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Congress has taken its first step toward an energy revolution, with the prospect of profound change for every household, business, industry and farm in the decades ahead.
It was late Friday when the House passed legislation that would, for the first time, require limits on pollution blamed for global warming — mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. Now the Senate has the chance to change the way Americans produce and use energy.
What would the country look like a decade from now if the House-passed bill — or, more likely, a water-down version — were to become the law of the land?
"It will open the door to a clean energy economy and a better future for America," President Barack Obama said Saturday.
But what does that mean to the average person?
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Why no MEGA-BARF ALERT???
What a load of shit....
Mon Apologie..
I spiced it up with a bit of an agenda-driven comment instead. :-)
Assembly line workers at factories that made gas-guzzling cars might see their future in producing the next generation of batteries or wind turbine blades — an emerging shift, though on a relatively small scale today. On Wall Street, commodity brokers would trade carbon pollution credits alongside oil futures.
Uhhhhmmmmm, how are America's manufacturers going to compete when the cost of energy (the stuff you use to manufacture stuff) is through the roof?
well.. at least all them solar installers and turbine maintainers will have ObamaCare in case they fall..
No problemo. Not far off the roof of the average mud hut...We'll be burning the frame houses to keep warm--right after the furniture and the books.
Not all revolutions turn out well. Think Russia. Think Iran.
Almost right, but... ACORN (COI) will be burning the books.
One other thing that people do not factor in is the muscle power needed to maintain a low-energy household.
Maintaining solar panels, for instance. Hauling water, doing laundry in the bathtub and dishes in the sink.
If we go back to the ‘30’s, no more running the teenagers to violin lessons and soccer al the tme. Teenagers have to pitch in and help. There will need to be a full-time homemaker.
And it ain’t going to be Pa.
They are called “Green Jobs” because after cap and trade goes through if you have a job people will be green with envy.
Is this like the New Economy during the Clinton administration when online commerce meant that the business cycle had been transcended? No more recessions ever. Only prosperity from now on.
Since then we had the dot.com bust and now the real estate bust combined with the insurance/financial bust. When will the Green Economy bust come?
God help us if this becomes law. I sure wish the AP would go bankrupt. It’s been intellectually and morally bankrupt for as long as I can remember.
It means:
1. Stairwell living, as in Spain, Germany, France, et.al., where you settle down in your squalid 3 room apartment with all the other families whose bread winners toil in the local windmill factory. or,
2. Lots of internet porn viewing, since he can't afford to travel in a $100,000.00 Tesla, and the local movie theaters, bowling alleys and golf courses are all closed. or,
3. A shortened life span, since medicine and medical care will only be allotted to government workers and the young (those under 35 yrs old.)
ap had a pile of writers working overtime to pile it on.. this is a country wrecker, well, the latest country wrecker legislation from an agenda driven Left. steal, cheat, lie,, whatever it takes to win and gain power. now how is the gop ever gonna beat that?
I don’t see what the problem is, it has worked so well in Spain. /s
We’ve done it before. We’ll do it again. It may not look like it now, but Obama and the MSM are digging their own graves. But if there is no real opposition to take the field when the current ruling class is in retreat, they will regain lost ground and build upon it. Obama is counting on fear and complacency to get what he wants.
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