“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted,” Obama said during a meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board.
“Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad,” he added. “Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to, uh, retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/25/obama-admitted-energy-prices-would-skyrocket-under-his-policies/#ixzz32XfBGoAE
“It is also key to carving out a legacy for Obama’s second term.”
Take over the health care system and turn it into a socialist nightmare in the first term and destroy the economy in the second. I pray that history deals harshly with him.
We’re being impoverished for all the health benefits poverty brings.
Nothing more than a
War on Affordable Energy
for the masses.
Global levels of CO2 have gone up every year since 2007.
The amount of CO2 emitted in the US has gone down, almost continuously, since 2007.
If Obama is worried about CO2 levels (I’m not), and those levels keep going up while our emissions keep going down, then someone else is responsible for the increase, and Obama should be bugging them, not us.
Ping.
Carbon Curbs? Concrete does just fine.
Defense? If de’ fence needs painting, Paint It!
As you grind away at work today, take comfort in the fact that a sizable portion of your wages will be confiscated from you so that Obama can carve himself a suitable legacy.