Mar
Hang on to your wallet
Congress will evidently never give up trying to get into the taxpayers wallets. Since Cap and Trade isn’t going to fly we’re now back to just plain old Tax and Spend. Per the New York Times, they’re still operating under the delusion that CO2 is causing AGW and should be taxed.
Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) have been working for months behind closed doors on a plan that promotes domestic energy production while putting a first-ever price on greenhouse gas emissions. Aides say they have settled on a relatively short but detailed list of ideas that are ready to be turned into formal bill language, but first they want to get feedback from key blocs of Democratic and GOP senators with a stake in everything from coal to natural gas, manufacturing and transportation.
According to the article the evil trio’s approach is to first hit will be utilities and fuel:
“The bottom line with utilities is they’ll assume a compliance obligation from day one of the program,”
Transportation fuels can expect a carbon tax that rises based on the compliance costs faced by the other major emitters.
While only in the initial stages this is another grab at tax dollars and we all know who’s wallet it will come out of, not utilities, big oil, or manufacturers as they’ll only pass this on to consumers.
I would urge you to write your congressperson. What ever happened to if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door?
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Everyone thinks that these senaters are clueless, but they know it’s a scam. So why do they push on….$$$$$MONEY$$$$TAX$$$$MONEY!!!!!…..so they really don’t care what the truth is or what the people want!
They just keep saying that the are “saving the planet” and then they can sleep at night.
GoreBull Warming, new socialism in action. Millions of jobs lost and driving the middle class into poverty by extortionate energy costs.
Carbon Swindlers, white collar criminals.
China, still one of the poorest countries in the world (per-capita income: $6,000) is currently building 21 new reactors, but the United States — supposedly the richest country in the world — can’t build a single one.
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODkyYTY2ODE0YmY3MDA4NWQwYmNlOWRjYTBhNmRkNzE=
“China’s first Westinghouse AP1000, only begun in 2007, is scheduled for completion next year. Meanwhile, our Nuclear Regulatory Commission hasn’t even approved the design of the AP1000. It’s still worried about what would happen if someone flew a jet plane into the containment structure. (Answer: the plane would disintegrate.)”
The Chinese get it, wealth is driven by cheap reliable energy. meanwhile the environ mentalists and the Democrats are destroying the foundation of the USA, the prosperity it built up only as a result of cheap reliable energy.
China says, you guys want more solar panels and wind turbines, sure no problem, ho ho, we make best ones for you. Behind close doors the Chinese are dancing and doing hand stands at the gullible politicians in the west buying wholly useless alternative energy products that pays for yet more nuclear power plants in China.
The environ mentalist movement has destroyed the West.
It’s worse than you think. A new idea that has started in the UK, and also in San Francisco, is that your neighbour installs solar panels and he gets a rebate on his bill that is paid for by increasing your bill.
If you want the solar panels, you get a loan from the energy company over 10 or maybe 25 years so the energy company gets to charge you for solar panels, loan interest and fitting. If they ever stop working, you lose your rebate. Germany just scrapped the same scheme because it made no difference to emissions, but it makes a lot of money for energy companies.