Friday, June 26, 2009
Posted by:
Michele Bachmann
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12:43 PM
If our Congressmen actually read this 1,200 plus cap-and-trade bill that will impose massive energy taxes on businesses and consumers -- and for that matter, every single American, then they would come across this section: "Designation and Registration of Greenhouse Gases."
Essentially, this section lists seven greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, and a catch all, “other” which can be designated by the Administrator of the EPA at some later date with a citizen petition for consideration of the next generation of gases. (pg. 543)
What this means is that if you and your friends have an issue with a certain gas that you think should be a greenhouse gas, and you can generate enough support on a petition, you may be able to get that particular gas banned.
Get ready for another couple of knocks on your door from the greenhouse-gas-of-the-month club.
Let's be clear, cap-and-trade is an absolutely disastrous policy for you and every single American that will result in higher costs on energy and all manufactured goods. After all, I can't think of anything produced that doesn't involve the use of energy – Director of the Congressional Budget Office couldn’t think of anything that would be impacted either when he testified before Congress earlier this year. Let's hope enough lawmakers come to their good senses and defeat this awful piece of legislation when it comes to the floor later today.
What will be my annual tax burden be for exhaling carbon dioxide?
If I purchase and plant a tree, will I receive a credit to offset my own pollution?
But if I have to drive my tree from the nursery to my home, will I not receive the credit given that I have now added other gasses to the atmosphere? Producing gasoline takes energy. Pumping it from the tank to my car requires energy. Operating a gas station requires energy, and all these costs go up due to the new taxes, and the costs are to be passed on to me.
Then again, if I manually haul (i.e. "drag") my tree from the nursery to my home, I will exert much effort, and exhale carbon dioxide gasses in amounts at least two magnitudes of order greater than if I had driven. Will I be taxed more? Should I stop exercising?
If I don't exercise, will Obamacare premiums be reduced or increased? |
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Should be the next one, since its most responsible for any warming effect (that comes from the sun, not people!).
So, lets make it a pollutant. Then we can regulate sweating, hot showers and spas, sprinklers that mist... evaporating in general.
If anyone really cared about a prolific geo-event in your lifetime, stop whining about co2 and realize that freshwater suppplies are way more paramount to our survival in the next century. |
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Buy "stupid offsets"
Counteract the effects of a liberal in your life....buy stupid offsets.... |
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"What this means is that if you and your friends have an issue with a certain gas that you think should be a greenhouse gas, and you can generate enough support on a petition, you may be able to get that particular gas banned."
Where do I file a petition regarding the hot air spewing forth from Congress? Several horses have already succumb to this deadly gas. |
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The earths atomosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, .003 carbon dioxide, & other minute elements less than a hundreth of a percent. Now if carbon dioxide increases 100 time it still doesn't amount to squat! This is such a hoax! Rep Bachmann voted for "the people". Our Govt no longer works for the common man. In 1776, our Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. Not too far away. READ this GREAT DOCUMENT! God Bless You Michelle Bachmann, you are a PATRIOT!
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Since Carbon, one of the building blocks of Life, has been identified by our all-knowing government as a reason for "global warming", I'd like to ask a couple of questions.
1. How would we survive without carbon?
2. What proof do you have that excess carbon emissions have had an effect on the environment?
3.Why would you adocate subecting all Americans and American businesses to extraordinary hikes in their electric bills because of this legislation, which is based 0n unproven scence?
4. Didn't Obama promise in his campaign there would be no new taxes for anyone making under some silly cap of $90K/year. Maybe it was $200
5. Call it a regulation if you want. It is a TAX. It is one more way for the govenment to control individuals and industries. |
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As you say, Cap and Trade is an expensive roundabout way of achieving… not very much!
C02 gas is naturally occurring, like the comments here also point out.
Whatever one’s attitude to greenhouse gas emissions, they can be lowered just by changes in electricity and transport that have advantages in themselves (and together they are responsible for 4/5 of emissions, US EPA data!).
This gives the following - regardless of also lowering CO2:
1. Local environmental benefit from less pollution of sulphur and ALl ELSE that's in the EMISSIONS, whatever about the less certain global benefit from CO2 reduction - and that is one reason why the focus on carbon trading is wrong, compared with the focus on simply reducing fuel combustion emissions.
2. Electricity supply alternatives which together with improved grid distribution gives better competition and keeps down electricity bills for consumers.
3. Transport alternatives (using electricity, hydrogen and other energy sources), which also reduces the dependency on oil imports.
Cost to businesses - and the consumers - is kept to a minimum,
by equity and long term loan finance, the latter can be fed/state guaranteed to keep down interest rates, with slow payback anyway giving little affected consumer electricity bills or car costs.
No disruption of American business practice and planning, by emission trading.
No volatile extra emission trading costs for a range of businesses, passed on to consumers.
Understanding Cap and Trade + Why it is Bad for America, see
http://ceolas.net/#cce5x
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(Not that many people are reading this anymore. Oh well)
"1. How would we survive without carbon?"
We wouldn't. No one's trying to eliminate carbon, or even all carbon dioxide.
"2. What proof do you have that excess carbon emissions have had an effect on the environment?"
No proof that would satisfy you, I'm sure, but CO2 is a greenhouse, proven to be responsible for 10 to 30% of the greenhouse effect. Add more CO2, you get more warming; it's basic physics.
"3.Why would you adocate subecting all Americans and American businesses to extraordinary hikes in their electric bills because of this legislation, which is based 0n unproven scence?"
What are you calling "extraordinary", and what do you base that assessment on? According to the CBO, average rate hikes will be $175 per family per year. Doesn't sound that aggregious to me.
"5. Call it a regulation if you want. It is a TAX. It is one more way for the govenment to control individuals and industries."
According to the latest version of the bill, most of the carbon credits are being given away, not auctioned. How can it be a tax if the government is getting very little revenue from it? |
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My greenhouse gas is named "Michele." It's similar in many ways to methane. |
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