Here Comes The Senate Cap And Tax Bill!

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Here Comes The Senate Cap And Tax Bill!

Written By : William Teach

And it is only 800 pages!

A climate change bill circulating in the Senate on Tuesday is slightly more ambitious than one passed in the House of Representatives, but still has many details to be worked out on how to encourage companies to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.

The legislation by Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry to be formally unveiled on Wednesday aims to reduce smokestack emissions of carbon dioxide by 20 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 — from 2005 levels.

Sweet! And, such transparency! Halp us Jon Carry, halp us!

Boxer’s Environment and Public Works Committee is expected to continue working behind closed doors to fill in other details before trying to sign off on the bill by the end of October.

John McCain has already stated he could never support this legislation, and James Inhofe said that he cannot imagine it being debated and passed this year.

The Senate Democrats’ bill also aims to encourage more “clean vehicles” and to improve airliners’ fuel efficiency. It also would help those who suffer job losses from climate control efforts with a “worker adjustment assistance” program.

With a wave of the mightly fairy wand and some unicorn poots, all will be well. As Bob Ellis at The Dakota Voice writes

This bill would cost millions of American jobs, raise our electric bills by 40% or more, hinder much-needed refining capacity, hurt foreign trade, block much-needed power plant development, require home inspections and environmental retrofitting before we can sell our homes, regulate how much water we can use in our own homes,

Courtesy of the Green Hell Blog, we have a look at the draft of the Senate version of the cap and trade global warming tax bill.

Apparently, not to be outdone by the asininity and hostility toward the American people of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate has upped the ante and called for a 20% reduction in greenhouse gases, even more egregious than the House bill.

All this to “fix” a problem that doesn’t even exist!

Whether it exists or not, bottom line, Democrats see this issue as a way of controlling more of America’s economy, its businesses, and its People.

BTW, just be thankful I didn’t add one of my special Barbara Boxer photoshops!

BIG

I think liberal Democrats realize their stay at the top is going to be a short one and they want to ram as much legislation through to destroy America as they possibly can. I just hope that we can undo the damage they are causing.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

I'm fine with reducing pollution, that's a noble goal. I just don't see anywhere in the US constitution that gives the federal government the power to do any such thing, nor is there a global climate change crisis to justify it as an emergency.

Every few days another crushing, deadly blow to the AGW hysteric's position comes out from solid, carefully done science. We found out their computer modeling was fundamentally in error. We found out that the repaired modeling couldn't even predict weather that had already happened. We found out that the ice caps were growing, not melting (except the one in part of antarctica where a volcano is under the ice). We found out that CO2 is increasing even as the temperature goes down. We found out that the sun directly affects climactic changes in irregular patterns. We even found out that the graph showing a sudden, shocking increase of temperature recently after a long downward turn was in fact deliberately manipulated by only using a small cherrypicked number of samples.

And meanwhile, the hysterics, activists, and idiots march on as if none of this were true.
http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

I just don't see anywhere in the US constitution that gives the federal government the power to do any such thing, nor is there a global climate change crisis to justify it as an emergency.

What is never asked is what if the climate models are wrong? AGW is based on predictions but nobody on the left ever steps back to ask the question if those predictions could be wrong?

AGW is simply another attempt to destroy industry.
tblrk2006

How to encourage a business to do anything is what liberals just dont understand. THey like to take the side of punishing the business for not doing something, when the correct method is to make it inviting and rewarding to do such.
Mike_M

This bill has nothing to do with global warming and everything to so with a turning the United States into a centralized planned economy.

The bill gives near dictatorial powers to an "Administrator" to control the operations of not only carbon-producing businesses, but also "secondary producers"…meaning any business that uses electricity.

All for completely arbitrary goals in reducing carbon emissions that not a single person alive could prove any demonstrable effect as a result. As if the concept of creating a market for government regulation wasn't absurd enough at face value.