idiots talking about sorcery
- Posted by Martin on June 2nd, 2008 filed in Climate change, Martin
The United States Senate, the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body”, is set to hold a week-long debate on fairy dust, pixies, unicorns and hobgoblins.
WASHINGTON - The Senate began what is expected to be a weeklong, contentious debate Monday over legislation to combat global warming by mandatory reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
Evidently they haven’t left the building for a while, because this fairytale looks more absurd by the day.
But not to be deterred by mere scientific data the anti-capitalist lefties, and their hand-wringing enablers on the right, have decided that nothing will cool Mother Earth down like a bout of global economic stagnation:
The Senate measure, which has wide Democratic and some Republican support, would cap U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, cutting them by 18 percent by 2020 and by two-thirds by mid-century. It would specifically target refineries, power plants, factories and transportation for 70 percent reductions and make emissions allowances available to be traded in an open market.
If I had more time, I’d unpack the sheer self-defeating, simple-mindedness of this idiocy, but the bar beckons. Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, Nashville, if anybody’s in town - drinks are on me.
Read it for yourself, and see why our political class is held in such low regard.
raz0r says:
I’d love to hear how they plan on getting 70% reduction out of utilities and manufacturing without shutting down plants and putting folks out of work. Sounds like a winner to me.
Panhandle Poet says:
And we thought gasoline was high now…..
Lord Bitememan says:
It’s easy to support environmental policies when you don’t think about their attendant costs. Then the easily led see the folly of that which they once supported. When they do environmental economic suicide won’t need to be swept away by Republicans, the Democrats will have long since abandoned the insanity. But Republicans can expect a majority some day as a result of it anyways. :P
Back in Black, Not « Obi’s Sister says:
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TC says:
LB - The only problem with that “wait and see” tactic is that we’ll all be unemployed and living in grass huts by that time. Under Sharia law.
Lord Bitememan says:
TC, I’d like to think that the United States of America is a robust and resiliant enough nation that one failed policy won’t destroy us. If this is not the case then I think our prospects for the future are bleak. Worry not. If they pass their law prices will scyrocket, the economy will fall into recession, the Dems will take the wrap, they will be voted out of office, laws will change, and the economy will recover and stablize. No nation on earth has ever crashed as hard as you suggest from the adoption of a single law, we won’t be the first.
sierrahome says:
Ditto everybody and BRAVO Martin…well said!!!
TC says:
I was just using hyperbole. But it would be a bad recession.
On the other hand… There are very few instances of government restrictions, oversight, regulation or entitlement programs that have been whittled back or eliminated.
I have a feeling we’ll have to endure this global warming nonsense for at least another decade until most folks realize they’ve been hoodwinked.
But then again… The socialist wankers and their media enablers shoving this crap down our collective throats will somehow be able to spin things in their favor by stating that it was their draconian restrictions on businesses and individuals were responsible for averting the demise of polar bears and the flooding of Miami.