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Energy bill is windfall for greedy Gore camp
Environmentalists are looking for help in all the wrong places when they look to politicians for help. Take as example the Waxman-Markey Energy bill (the cap-and-trade bill). The premise of this bill is that carbon emissions cause global warming and all the dire things Al Gore has prophesied in his book. According to a study at MIT, what this bill would accomplish is, basically, nothing as far as impacting global temperature changes. It is, in reality, a new tax that we will all pay, from the pockets of the very poor on up the socioeconomic ladder. From our pockets directly to the federal coffers.This whole theory about carbon emissions is based on bad science, and has proven to be false by many scientists. According to a report from the United Nations, average global temperatures have decreased in the last 10 years, and carbon emissions have increased tenfold in the last 10 years. Now that is an inconvenient truth. So who stands to benefit with the passage of this bill? Well, for starters there's Al Gore and his carbon-trading company, environmental consultants, all the new bureaucrats that would be needed. The New York Times reported: "Cap and trade, by contrast, is almost perfectly designed for the buying and selling of political support through the granting of valuable emissions permits to favor specific industries and even specific Congressional districts." This bill would be an open invitation to fraud. The only way it could work would be round-the- clock surveillance and monitoring everything we do. We see who would benefit from this bill: the politicians and businesses big enough to keep the politicians happy. And the lobbyists and special interest groups. But who would pay this $1 trillion to $2 trillion energy tax? Well, for starters, it would raise an average family's annual energy bill by $1,500, and raise the cost of living for everyone because the cost of goods would be increased. Not only that, but an estimated 1-3 million jobs would be lost per year over the next 15 years. If Congress passes this Waxman-Markey Energy Bill (cap and trade), it will be yet another fine example of political incompetency and/or corruption. Let us watch and take note of who votes for it. And remember it at the polls. Posted by: Fred 2009-05-31 |
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