Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Bob Inglis (Former R-SC), who was unseated by a landslide primary (71:29%) in 2010 by Tea Party Member Trey Gowdy (R-SC), has been touring Australia, reassuring worried greens that President Trump will soon be brought under control by the climate movement.
Australian coal ‘risks being caught out’ by Trump climate U-turn
The president could spring a surprise with a carbon price, making renewables cheaper, US Republican warns.
Fossil fuel industries in Australia could be left behind by improvements in renewables and the possibility Donald Trump changes tack on a carbon tax, a former US Republican congressman has warned.
In a speech to the [Australian] National Press Club on Wednesday, Bob Inglis, a conservative advocate for private sector action on climate change, called for the United States to take unilateral action by imposing a carbon tax with an import levy on goods made in countries without a carbon price.
Inglis, a congressman for 12 years who lost Republican preselection over his advocacy of a carbon price, argued that conservatives could be persuaded to join a coalition to fight climate change by appeals to the free market or to faith.
Inglis was surprisingly upbeat about the prospect of Trump taking action on climate change. He claimed Trump was “channeling the fears of a fearful people” when he dismissed climate change as a “Chinese hoax” but could not possibly believe that.
“There is some chance that President Trump, may respond to his daughter Ivanka’s interest in climate change.
“There is a chance he may listen to secretary of state Rex Tillerson who, as recently as October was advocating for the same revenue neutral carbon tax we are proposing at [eco-right website] republicEN.org.”
He predicted reality would force Trump to shift, as gas prices increase, coal mining jobs do not return and new technologies will be needed to create jobs.
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Bob Inglis seems to think a carbon tax will have more of a stimulus effect on the US economy than cheap energy.
The following is a video of Bob Inglis’ presentation to the National Press Club of Australia;
SC voters wisely rejected this dweeb tool for the prosecutorial Gowdy, despite the latter’s funny hair.
Now if they’d just primary Senator Graham…
A Rebublican who lost to another Republican would be hard pressed to collect speaking and lobbying fees unless he/she is willing to sell assets to the devil. IMO this man has put his own greed above the good of the people he is supposed to still hold precious.
Empty suits like this (another one is Hillary) orient to the small of money.
Pigs could fly too, especially when vacationing in Australia and providing the necessary biased comments for the biased press. Al Gore already did it.
Lol, dear Eric Worrall, now you have exaggerated. I am not surprised if the special Bob English here was shoved from the political tomb by the climate professionals and alarmists and is now putting on a Kafka PR tour. “Oh, he was invited by Australian Native Americans who feared that the Ayers Rock might be flooded in the future, how pretty, he was a former Republican deputy, even prettier” No, I think the faithful to the AGW-Wonderland are in General in Trumps Cabinet in the Poor Minority. It looks as if Vice Mike Pence has been a climate skeptic far and far deeper than Donald Trump himself. The others also have nothing to do with “climate-friendly” scenarios, so that even Rex Tillerson’s moderate attitude is nothing but the attitude of a Lukewarmer. He was just a smooth CEO, because one sometimes conceals his true views. Either way, Trump is not alone in his team, and it would be a political suicide for Trump to move off his agenda now. The US-American will judge this agenda in 4 years, but Trump does not commit on Day 33 Harakiri. Why? Because of the greens in Australia or the fake smile of Bob Englis, who had showed since long years, he is a member of the green Movement?
I’ve not met any of those…
Any business executive who takes Bob Inglis’ word for what Trump will do deserves to be wearing a barrel.
Government types are always convinced that if give everything to them and let them control it as they see fit, it will perfect the world.
Isn’t this scraping the bottom of the talking head barrel? I suppose they could find some former city council members at the airport with sufficient bias creds.
In other climate news…..
https://www.yahoo.com/news/icelands-president-said-ban-pineapple-170003956.html
I have to agree with him 200%! The only fruit one should ever find on a pizza is tomato.
Just to incite further debate, I firmly believe in beetroot on burgers, however 🙂
“Bob Inglis (Former R-SC), who was unseated by a landslide primary (71:29%) in 2010 by Tea Party Member Trey Gowdy (R-SC)”
The voters of Inglis’ district demonstrated just what they think of him.
And team Trump just keeps rolling along implementing the agenda he ran on and doing their best to fulfil his promises to do that which his supporters elected him to do despite the total and complete opposition and resistance of the democrats, the deep state, and their press. I really can’t find a parallel to what is happening now in American history. Sure there are similarities here and there at different times but nothing in our history that I can identify that comes close to the whole package of what we see transpiring. It really is something to behold.
And I take this Bob Inglis characters address to the Australian press, which BTW is pretty much every bit as biased as our own, to be a sign of the weakness of the opposition. This is the best the opposition can bring forth to bolster opposition to Team Trumps agenda? A failed RINO politician? It is as laughable as the Hollywood types thinking they really can effect the vote and the opinions of the US electorate.
+1
Not mentioned in the above is the concept of demand. I might have missed it.
Soo — The Stone Age did not end because the need for tools declined.
— Horses did not disappear from city streets because transport was no longer needed.
And so on.
When a better source of energy for electricity is found, coal will be replaced for that purpose. (Note, in parts of the USA that better source is gas.
Weak, weepy, obviously ingratiating, etc.etc. etc.. this self described conservative republican is the poster boy for Trump winning the primary. Guess this gig beats working for a living.
Trump hung the portrait if Andrew Jackson in the oval office. That and FDR would be close to what we are experiencing. Wonder if the will still take Jackson off the money.
Where is the sculpture of Churchill these days after Obama banished it?
..Where it should be…..
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2670506/winston-churchill-bust-oval-office-white-house-donald-trump/
Yeah, how dare a US President remove a bust of Churchill that was loaned to George W Bush and not him! Oh, and the UK has zero busts of US Presidents at #10 Downing Street.
Obviously, the point is beyond your liberal minds understanding !
A grand total of nobody has claimed that Obama had no right to move the bust.
The point is the message that moving the bust sends.
“Yeah, how dare a US President remove a bust of Churchill that was loaned to George W Bush and not him! Oh, and the UK has zero busts of US Presidents at #10 Downing Street”
I don’t get your point?
Obama didn’t want Churchill because he saw him as a defender of imperialism, which he most certainly was. But he was also the greatest British ally the US ever had and one of the greatest wartime statesmen and leaders in world history. BTW, he was also the son of a American mother.
Being a Conservative I detest FDRs “New Deal” and believe it to be a key element of the socialist rot which has taken us so far from what was intended in the Constitution. But I would never be such a myopic ass as to ignore or deny FDRs effective leadership of the US during WW II despite his misguided and damaging policies before the war.
Obama hates the British because during the Kenyan war of independance (a typically bloody affair with white farmers, their families and black workers being butchered in the manner that only Africans can achieve – and what they did to captured British soldiers is unmentionable) the British army fought against the Mau Mau terrorists and one of his relatives (uncle?) was a member of the Mau Mau and was inept enough to be captured by the British army who, unsurprisingly, were somewhat less than polite to him.
Obama has never forgiven the British for that.
“…The president could spring a surprise with a carbon price, making renewables cheaper, US Republican warns….”
Pricing carbon in the manner that this ninny imagines has nothing to do with markets–it is command and control, dirigiste economics. It does not actually make renewables cheaper, but rather makes all energy more expensive and distorts all economic thinking. I wish it were possible to explain economics to such people.
bingo…and it lines the pockets of as many advocates as possible at the expense of the true cost leaders
Why wouldn’t China push the catastrophic man made climate hoax. They get to flood north America with solar panels while building coal fired generators hand over fist. And they don’t have to worry about changing their image till 2030.
…It is amazing that liberals fail to understand this simple fact !!
And, when 2030 comes along, wanna bet China will point to the failed predictions of the climate alarmists and decide they don’t need to change their image after all. China knows how to play the game for all it’s worth.
What an example of a cynical banal man. His constituents were wise to toss him out of office. I hope he charged those climate kooks a lot of money for speaking.
I have been wondering. Is Inglis a ‘has been’ or a ‘never was’?
A neverwuzzer.
They actually think if they get more rinos on board for carbon tax that people are going to go for it!?
Redistributive change is the opiate of the masses and elites.
One of the swamp critters who was fortunately flushed down the drain even before President Trump started draining the swamp.
A Sheep in enviro-Wolve’s clothing.
An above post mentions some risk in bike riding. I’ll add to it. We all had metal “pant clips to” tuck the pant cuff in. Prevented it getting caught in the chain. There is a painful memory. When not in use, guys all carried them in the back pocket. OK-until you went ice-skating and fell on your butt.
His primary loss was the largest by an unindicted member of congress in the history of this nation. In the following (2010) election, cap-and-trade was the reason that the Repos took over the house, when 64 seats changed hands.
Think every elected person in DC isn’t aware of this?
Not the ones vacationing in Australia
Real Conservatives LIVE at CPAC…Ted Cruz right now…
Trump will have to address the environmentalist’s lobbies, green industry patrons, special and peculiar interests (e.g. climate scientists), and the overlapping and convergent interests in his own Party.
Well, at least now they know which bathroom to use !!
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5333901287001/?#sp=show-clips
Converts to new religions are often the most fanatical. Fortunately for sceptics when conversions are involved in the climate debate most are going the other way. In fact how anyone who studies the subject can go from sceptic to warmist shows a person who is detached from reality and probably needs psychiatric help.