By Elmer Beauregard
The problem with the Senate's New Climate Bill is that it still uses the word "Climate".
This bill was written with the false assumption that CO2 is responsible for Global Warming and we now know that it isn't. 12 out of 13 scientists don't believe in Global Warming anymore but Kerry and Lieberman still do. They must get their news from NPR.
The Kerry and Lieberman's bill aims to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, and ultimately, 80% below those levels by mid-century. Doing this will have no effect on the climate, but it will put a burden on the U.S. economy based on a fictitious problem.
The bill does have some provisions for nuclear plants and offshore drilling to lure conservatives into supporting this bill, but the main thing this bill does is install an Enron style form of Carbon Credit Trading or "Cap and Trade".
The bill also allows states to opt out of offshore drilling in their own waters if they wish, but it doesn't allow states the autonomy to drill on their own dry land if they want to.
To avoid disasters like the oil spill in the Gulf, I think states like Alaska should be allowed to drill for their own oil on dry land and maybe use American companies, instead of having foreign companies drilling in our waters a mile deep.
If our Government would have allowed drilling in ANWR, we wouldn't need any oil from the middle east and the Gulf disaster could have been avoided. Plus, it would have a smaller footprint than one wind farm or solar plant.
Senator Lieberman is nothing if not a paradox. One day he seems like a reasonably intelligent person (demanding information from the Pentagon on the Ft. Hood massacre); the next day he's cosponsoring a Bill based on junk and fraudulent science with the likes of John Kerry, who is anything but a paradox.
Elmer be careful your using logic, and common sense again and you know they have nothing to do with thing like cap and trade and global warming.
Really why do we need things like facts, when we can say things like "saving the planet" "protecting the environment" catch phrases are so much better than facts. I mean really it took you 6 paragraphs, to logically explain your point. Who wants to read 6 paragraphs..when you can go with a catch phrase.
p.s. keep up the good work.