Let me give you a scenario. During the Bush Administration, a couple of government workers create a video challenging one of their policies. Pick any policy. Those workers are told to “remove the clip and edit out some references to their employer”.
Imagine the liberal screech that would ensue. Screams of facism, censorship, you name it. Well, guess what…
Two Environmental Protection Agency lawyers who made a YouTube video calling current climate legislation a “huge mistake” were told by the agency to remove the clip and edit out some references to their employer, one of them said.
Allan Zabel and Laurie Williams, a husband and wife who have worked in the EPA’s San Francisco office for more than 20 years, have been outspoken in their opposition to a “cap and trade” system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That system — in which companies may buy and sell the right to pollute — is at the heart of a climate bill passed by the House this summer, and another under consideration in the Senate.
The liberal myth of tolerance and “the embrace of the free exchange of ideas” is being destroyed along with their credibility.
Here is the video in question.
Carbon Fees with Rebates has to be one of the dumbest idea’s I’ve heard. It would fuck over the lower class faster then anything before, as the major problem with it is you have to have the money in the first place to pay for the energy before you get the rebates. It is the lesser of the evils mentioned in the video, there is still a better solution. Let the consumers do the pushing. In Texas there aren’t as many liberal’s pushing for “Green Energy” but Power companies are phasing in renewable resources into their energy production. Why? Because it lowers the cost slightly that way, but renewable energy is too scarce to go 100% and remain competitive. By slowly opening more Hydroelectric plants and wind farms, it increases the amount of renewable energy without increasing the costs.
Just remember the definition of carbon offsets: An IMAGINARY
COMMODITY, created by deducting what you HOPE happens, from
what you guess WOULD have happened.
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“Cap and Trade” is a fundamentally flawed policy. So, these lawyers propose manipulating the market, through artificial inflation of the price of carbon-based energy sources. Brilliant! These people propose an alternative central control to that proposed by the administration and its supporters. Everytime people attempt to play with the market, its supply and demand elements, they fail, and the people bear the burden of their arrogance.
Something to consider:
The so-called “Big Green” industry continues to be subsidized by public wealth. The members of “Big Green” possess assets valued in excess of $13 trillion. Why is American wealth being used to fund their projects? In contrast, the total assets, public and private, of the United States are valued at $74 trillion.
Investors Worth $13 Trillion Urge Strong Global Climate Treaty
181 investors, who collectively manage more than $13 trillion in assets worldwide, the statement on the “urgent need for global agreement on climate change”
The investors in “Big Green” do not require further funding of their projects. I would conclude that the AGW agenda is simply an excuse to implement a massive transfer of wealth.
Invent a new economic model, create a crisis, and wait for the wealth to flow. So, the question remains, what came first, the “chicken” or the “egg”?
Their recounts of Big Lie and Rip-offs are only a few of many examples about this biggest of all possible boondoggles. Their solution is just another tax that they believe will solve a problem that doesn’t exist. How often have we heard that from big-government proponents?
Since they finally realized that we are being subjected to one lie they should take the next step and consider the possibility that there may be others.
I was with ‘em right up until their “solution”.
Their solution sucks.