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To: Scanian

THE cap-and-trade bill. Madoff has a new plan.


8 posted on 06/30/2009 3:52:29 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

DOA in the Senate. Got same votes as Al Gore’s BTU tax in the house in 1993.


9 posted on 06/30/2009 3:59:22 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: Vaduz

THE cap-and-trade bill. Madoff has a new plan.

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I’m making a bumper sticker, hope you don’t mind.


18 posted on 06/30/2009 7:51:07 AM PDT by abbi_normal_2
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To: Vaduz
THE cap-and-trade bill. Madoff has a new plan.

That's a great line - and damned near true.

Look: I did a little research on the subject and here's some of what I found:

What percentage of the earth's atmosphere is composed of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?

Any ideas? Curious? (scroll down)

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Answer = 0.038%.

That's not a misprint. The Earth's atmosphere is composed of 78.08% Nitrogen, 20.95% Oxygen, 0-4% water vapor, depending on location, less than 1% Argon, and 0.038% carbon dioxide.

That's not all, however. Here's another question for you:

What percentage of carbon dioxide is introduced into the atmosphere as a product of man-made activity? I won't make you scroll this time:

A: Approximately 3.0%.

So, in essence, what we are talking about with "Cap and Trade" is a proposal that will cost trillions of dollars and millions of jobs, permanently reducing our standard of living and restricting personal freedom....

...in order to reduce a gas whose man-caused component represents 0.00114% of the atmosphere.

Oh, by the way: the goal is to reduce man-made CO2 by a whopping 0.05% - so, in sum:

We're about to destroy the American economy and our standard of living in order to affect 0.00000057% of the atmosphere.

Sounds like a really smart plan, huh? Are we out of our minds?

19 posted on 06/30/2009 8:01:40 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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