Reading numerous postmortem election articles this morning and this one caught our attention.
"We look forward to working with them to solve our country’s most pressing environmental problems, including global climate change. As the President declared last night, ‘We want our children to live in an America ... that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.’"..."As the historic storm just reminded us, we have no time to waste; we must get serious about climate solutions in order to protect our loved ones and communities from terrible impacts -- extreme weather disasters, droughts, heat waves, and other dangerous consequences of global warming. Especially in the wake of Sandy, which demonstrated that doing nothing about climate change is much costlier than taking action, this issue clearly should be a top priority for our leaders in government.”
The main priority of 'C3 Headlines' over the last few months has been to make it politically impossible for the global warming alarmists to inflict untold damages on the economy and American families.
To accomplish this task, Americans had to at least elect a GOP-controlled senate, and better yet, elect a GOP president who would stop the EPA from further damage. Thus, 'C3' in recent months has devoted its attention more to the political realm in an attempt to aid the GOP's likelihood of success.
Unfortunately, that did not work out so well. With the reelection of Obama and a Democratic Senate, in combination with an out-of-control EPA, the 'die is cast,' irreparably.
Over the next two years (prior to the 2014 mid-terms) the UN's "climate change" and green-fundametalist's agenda will triumph. Green cronyism and subsidized-failures (Volt, anyone?) will prosper. Empirical-based science will continue to wither, and science fraud, perpetuated by the media and academia, will be championed.
It's going to be ugly, starting with the new taxes.
First, Inglis and Shultz are not conservatives. They are big government types wanting more taxes to spend, who happen to be part of the GOP establishment. True conservatives want to limit/restrain govt not enhance/grow it with more money.
Second, Inglis supports a carbon tax because of his stated fear of "global warming." But over the last 15 years there has been no global warming (see: http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/08/climate-sensitivity-hadcrut-co2-agw-global-warming-evidence-30-years.html). So this means Inglis is either stupid (ignorant?) or he is lying about his real motivation for wanting another tax. (I think it's the latter.)
Third, a carbon tax does not affect the profits of oil and gas companies. It is a new company cost that they pass right on to the consumers.
Fourth, federal politicians will not refund a carbon tax to taxpayers. They will do just like Gov. Brown did in California - use the carbon tax to pay for more spending on the 47% welfare class. Which part of out-of-control-spending and fiscal-cliff do you not understand? (see: http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120612/california-cap-and-trade-program-billions-auction-proceeds-energy-efficiency-carb-jerry-brown-next10-rggi)
Try again. Stop with the lame-brain arguments - the election is over.
Posted by: C3 Editor | November 08, 2012 at 06:43 AM
Carbon fee and dividend is strongly supported by some conservatives, such as Bob Inglis and former Sec of State George Shultz. Fees are returned as lower taxes. Big oil and coal, of course, are against it and willing to risk the planet for a few bucks (like they need it!).
Posted by: Jan Freed | November 08, 2012 at 05:45 AM