Climate bill DOA for this session, focus now on oil spill

@Gail Combs:
“I have had my diesel Pkup for 18 years and my livestock trailer is close to 25 years old and I have no intention of getting rid of either. Fighting rust is my biggest problem.”
Young ‘uns I see… I’ve got a 30 year old Diesel Mercedes that is doing just fine… Though the paint is oxidized and it needs a rub / polish. (No rust). Yeah, made to last and not disposed every 5 years. Saves a LOT on energy and resource waste.
And I’m never going to sell it, either. It’s only got 150,000 miles on it. My spouses Diesel Mercedes Wagon is over 320,000 miles and still doing fine. These old iron block Diesels regularly go to near 500,000 miles and about a dozen were shown as over 1,000,000 miles when Mercedes went looking for high mileage cars for a commercial about a decade ago. (IMHO, there would have been more, but as the cars had ‘only’ been made for about 50 years that required more than 20,000 miles per year average and few folks do that for 50 years… )
Now consider that most farm tractors are of similar iron block sturdy design.
Yeah, just keep the paint up and the rust down.
Oh, and you can run vegetable on in them too (with a little help in cold climates via heating) so no problem with finding fuel even if Diesel Oil is legislated to oblivion.
Per congress:
I find myself hoping that we enter a New Little Ice Age and fast, with a few hundred thousands dying in the cold, as it is the only way I can see to avoid the millions who will die under the de-industrialization of the world desired by the warmistas.
It has, as noted by others, been widely demonstrated that this congress has no interest in the will of the people. They have The Agenda, and it drives all.
We no longer have a Republic. Nor even a Democracy. We have a Deceptocracy electing folks via deceptive campaigns to a congress that names bills for the purpose of deception and has committee rules that lets the committee put into ‘conference bills’ ANYTHING, even if in neither original bill all funded by commercial money in the lobby. The Public need not apply for admission to the halls of power…
This either gets fixed, or it all collapses in a terrible way. We’ve seen this before in history, and it is not a stable system. Once deception and expedience are accepted as the social norms, then the social order breaks down and the system halts. For Direct Democracies, this is typically about 50 years; and we’ve been at it for a while already.
Two examples: I decided to close a business that, at it’s peak, employed a dozen folks rather than continue to shovel the administrative poo the government demanded. Later, when asked for council by a young friend, I advised that it would be a bad idea to enter the military as these folks principles were not worth dying to protect. Continue those trends for a few years, some larger geography, and more widespread in the society, and you end up defenseless and going out of business.
And that is how these things end. You reach a point where the general public just sees no reason to participate in the work needed to keep the system together; and instead just join the side mining the pyramids for marble to make a hut…
So I”m certain that even if NO “Cap’N-Tax” bill is passed by either house, it will be inserted “in conference” during the Lame Duck session at least. And when that happens, you can do NOTHING to stop it. And the Dim Dems have shown they don’t care while the Toothless Repubs have shown they will do nothing if they can get a bit of second hand glory; some by signing on and other by tossing rocks at it.
And in the end, it will just be one more step on the path to destruction of the country to the greater glory of China.
http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/china-makes-western-co2-control-pointless/