Posted on 12/14/2010 11:27:15 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Sen. Lindsey Graham is concerned that the Republican Party faces political dangers by resisting efforts to reduce carbon dioxide and other air pollution. That assertion seems to challenge GOP campaigns this year, in which candidates often rejected the science behind climate change.
Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, is designing an agenda for next year featuring a clean energy standard for utilities, which rewards increased nuclear and renewable power alike. Similar ideas have failed because they tended to dilute incentives for wind and solar. But under an increasingly conservative Congress, many advocates see that outcome as a potential victory, under reduced expectations.
For Graham, it might mark another opportunity to insert himself in the center of the energy debate. He says it's urgent to begin a speedy national transition to clean technology. He points to jobs, jobs, jobs. He predicts new energy mandates can be tailored to help businesses compete with China and not harm them economically.
Politics is not far from the calculation, either. Graham shrugged off the notion that he might feel a conservative backlash in 2014, when he's up for re-election, by pushing forward with an agenda that counts clean air as a central objective.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Somebody should ask Senator Graham why he hates trees.
He seems intent on starving them.
He must work for GE.
We can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide significantly if these two would stop breathing.
In 1993 the Senate backed away from ratifying the UN'S radical Convention on Biological Diversity. Clinton used executive orders to and statutory powers already in place to implement the provisions of this treaty.
Do some research on Sustainable Development, Smart Growth and Agenda 21. All government policy today, all right from a treaty that the U.S. Senate would not even vote on.
I do not know why South Carolina puts up with this POS
RINO politician.
He is, without a doubt, about as low as they come.
Can we replace her, PLEASE?
ping
LOL. The lower left caption should read: DEATH.
CO2 is the stuff of life, morons.
I think you will find that natural gas is not any longer a "more expensive source". Development of horizontal drilling and its benefit of making shale gas practical have changed the equation significantly. If a fossil fuel is used, natural gas is the best choice.
They make Forest Gump look like a genius.
Don't you realize there is a lot of shuttin up to be done? And you are just the one to do it.
Graham and Gingrich are so close o the forest they cannot see the trees.
Gramnisty is history in 12
Great article by Phyllis Schlafly. It shows the problem with all those lovely agencies under the executive branch - EPA, FDA, DHS, Dept of Education, etc. If congress had any spine, they would cut all their funding by 90%!
GOOBER and his pro amnesty stances taken with McLAME.
This CARBON Bull****
Looks like a RINO to me ... Or ..
we can just put him in the same category as RON PAUL...
Looks good on paper but they’re still KOOKS!!!
“I think you will find that natural gas is not any longer a “more expensive source”. Development of horizontal drilling and its benefit of making shale gas practical have changed the equation significantly. If a fossil fuel is used, natural gas is the best choice.”
The government is trying to regulate coal fired power plants out of business. If natural gas is cheaper then let the market decide. It is a matter of supply and demand. At current usage rates this country has several hundred years of coal that can be extracted economically from the ground.
Where I live we had an electric generation plant that our public utilities spent around a hundred million dollars trying to comply with EPA regulations. It was designed to burn garbage, wood chips, and other solid fuel. The EPA classified it as an incinerator not a power generation plant and pulled it’s license. The whole place was dismantled. I used to work next door to it. It burned the fuel at such a high temperature and had so many filters for particulate that you couldn’t even tell when it was running... there was no visible “polution” at all. They were turning garbage into electricity and the EPA shut them down.
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