Democratic Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman declared yesterday that a new EPA study shows their new global warming
legislation won’t cost Americans much after all. But so far most Americans don’t show an inclination to pay anything for such legislation.
“There’ll be some people who will want to demagogue that politically, but that’s less than $1 a day,” The Politico quoted Lieberman saying at a press conference yesterday. “Is the American household willing to pay less than $1 so we don’t have to buy oil from foreign countries, so we can create millions of new jobs, so we can clean up our environment? I think the answer is going to be yes.”
Our surveying suggests…
however, that the answer is no. Democratic Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman declared yesterday that a new EPA study shows their new global warming legislation won’t cost Americans much after all. But so far most Americans don’t show an inclination to pay anything for such legislation.
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But … but … Auntie Beeb reports that CO2 has been responsible for other “unprecedented” “warmings” or “coolings” or .. Somethings!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10342318.stm
Less than a dollar a day?
Right.
Care to guess why I think that ‘promise/pledge’ is a steaming pile of…
These are the same folks who said the health care bill will save money, knowing full well the Medicare “Doc Fix” was excluded to make it appear cheaper. The democratic leadership is now trying to hide the ‘doc fix” in any piece of catch-all legislation they can but the blue-dog Democrats are balking at the price tag. After that fiasco, how can they think anyone is dumb enough to believe that legislation designed to raise the price of energy enough to change consumption habits will not cost us anything?
Won’t cost more than $1.00 per day? Right. And 0bama care will be revenue neutral.
“so we don’t have to buy oil from foreign countries, so we can create millions of new jobs, so we can clean up our environment?”
Lies and damned lies.
Where did Lieberman get that $1/day figure? And no, we’ve already spent trillions too much on this insanity much less have a desire to line the pockets of the hucksters behind this bs scam game.
Let’s address all of Lieberman’s fallacious issues one at a time:
1) The “foreign oil dependence” ruse: Jon Stewart last night showed clips of every single president back to Nixon making that same promise. And here we are! There is precisely zero evidence that the federal government would do a damn thing about this, especially as long as big companies line their campaign chests to ignore it. So just stop it.
2) Millions of new jobs: Time and again statistics have shown that giving the government ANY more money does not create a single new job. New jobs are ONLY created by business, and that comes from taking LESS money from people and their businesses. So just stop it.
3) Clean up our enviroment: We already have, and by quite a bit! I live in the Los Angeles basin and our summer air is much cleaner than it was in the late 70s. Kids these days do not even know what a “Stage 3” (or even 2) smog alert is! Besides, where were the federal regulators who were tasked to PREVENT operators of Deepwater Horizon from operating unsafe rigs such that disasters like this would not happen? Those people, already on the federal dole, were EPIC FAILURES at doing what they got money to do. Now they want MORE money? Yet everyone in Congress is taking their turn flogging BP and yet all of them are conveniently ignoring the abject failure of the regulatory agencies to keep an eye on them, which is their only job! SO JUST STOP IT!
The answer is no because most goverment estimates of costs are of by a factor of about a hundred, so no one wants to pay an extra $10,000 a year.
“Stephen Brown says:
June 17, 2010 at 2:58 pm
But … but … Auntie Beeb reports that CO2 has been responsible for other “unprecedented” “warmings” or “coolings” or .. Somethings!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10342318.stm
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from the article:
“The team “found a fingerprint in the sequence of temperature changes” – a pattern that began 2.7 million years ago, Professor Herbert explained. ”
futerra or whatever their PR agency is must have advised all the professional climatogologists to replace “robust” with “fingerprint” it seems. Recently they’re finding “fingerprints” wherever they look… or is carbon “footprint” now too noughties?
Ray Hudsen, may I use your input?
Not inclined? Not INCLINED? That has to be the understatement of the century! How about: No Way, Jose’! Not on your life! You can have my carbon, when you pry it from my cold dead hands!
Wasn’t that WHY the DOE (the U.S. Dept. Of Energy) was created some 33 odd years ago by pres. CARTER?
How many millions down the tube and where are we?
Square one?
Hullo?
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A comment copied from James Delingpole’s blog, re British wind power:
“In the last 24 hours they have generated a staggering 458 MWh. That means that each £2 million + windmill has generated about £8 of electricity. Makes you proud to be British doesn’t it.
http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp_home.htm
here’s a real gem of an article from the Beeb (complete with utterly made-up graphic of some cute looking cuddly-wuddly Mammoth-like-thingies standing on some CGI-Ice – aww shucks)
Ancient climate change ‘link’ to CO2
but it gets even more Science-y
whoops screwed the formatting there – sorry – this is why a preview function is a good idea 🙂
” I think the answer is going to be yes.”
ROTFL Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Is there one single person alive, with more than one active synapse, that believes them?
Yep, and health care will be free, better and everybody will get all they want.
These pie in the sky liars …. @ur momisugly#$%^&*(
“A dollar down and a dollar a day.” I know a used car dealer who used that line.
I wonder if he realizes how people will laugh when they hear that line. This would be truly funny of it were not so tragic.
Here in Ontario, the Green Energy Act has already been used to introduce new taxes without votes in the legislature and it has been used to strip landowners of their rights.
Americans. We Canadians welcome you to the New Green Future.
Thank you for your attention, now return to your cells and await the next improvement in your life.
Hey folks,
There are no lies here, the gov’ment is telling you the truth! It will only cost each American household $1/month to fund this legislation.
That’s a Washington D. C. beltway $1/month – having absolutely no relationship to the rectangular piece of paper with the picture of George Washington on it, and the same disconnect to a calendar month. (SARC OFF)
Obama called. He wanted to know what comes after “trillion.”
Sucks to be a warmist.
Mark Wagner::
“Impeachment.”
At least the idea of the USA being energy independent makes some kind of strategic sense.
But that’s not the idea that the IPCC is pushing.
We must always remember that the “science is settled” and we all want to save the planet.
Or was that yesterdays message?
Won’t cost only a dollar a day, which accumulatively even a dollar a day is still a considerable amount of money.
There’s no anthropogenic global warming to fight.
I’m not inclined to want to pay $ .01 per day.
less than $1 a day means it’s more than $10 a day that we cannot afford and does positively nothing to improve anything and undoubtedly does a tremendous amount to destroy western civilization.