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2007-05-23 Home Front: Politix

"Huh?" Department : nancy pelosi asking Yahoo Answers about Global Warming

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-05-23 14:01|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Queen Nancy seems to be seeking our input; conducting her own poll, as it were.

Congress is working on legislation to address global warming - what would you like to see included?

Odd, since she won't accept e-mails, except from her constituents.

29,270 people have responded.....

Posted by Al Gore 2007-05-23 15:20|| 2007-05-23 15:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Queen Nancy will listen to this one:

1) Increase taxes on companies that use new timber (either from the US or imported) in their products when alternative recycled resources are available. Use these taxes strictly as subsidies for alternative energy sources.

2) Stop urban sprawl. Construction companies continuously cut down forests and pave over fields in order to put up new housing in the suburbs. Our natural lands are disappearing at an alarming pace and we are continuously encroaching on animal's habitats. Encourage companies to instead refurbish land that once held factories, plants, and condemned housing.

3) Resurrect the legislation that was meant to increase fuel efficiency on cars. Encourage companies to further the development of hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles, and provide larger tax cuts/incentives to people who do purchase these vehicles. The current yearly tax incentives aren't quite attractive enough for someone looking into a new car to warrant purchasing a vehicle that costs $10K to $15K more than its conventional counterpart.

I'm glad to hear that Congress is working on this again. Let's hope that it's not too little, too late.

Posted by Bobby 2007-05-23 15:52|| 2007-05-23 15:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't think Nancy would like any of my suggestions, as they involve her ass and anything you can jam up it...

Posted by tu3031 2007-05-23 15:56|| 2007-05-23 15:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Construction companies continuously cut down forests and pave over fields in order to put up new housing in the suburbs.

You can't cut down trees already cut down by the farmers. A lot of urban sprawl was/is done on land already cleared by the agricultural side of the house.

Further, a lot of land in the what was the Great Prairies of Lewis and Clark's time, is now forested or treed by those who immigrated in the late 19th Century. New growth with trees not originally native to the soil.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-23 17:26|| 2007-05-23 17:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Bobby - I have read in several forums that there are now more forest lands than existed when the settlers arrived (the only gauge historically "accurate"). Previously, lightning fires et al swept unfought across wide swaths.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-23 19:40|| 2007-05-23 19:40|| Front Page Top

#6 A truly comprehensive plan would not only deal with global warming here, but would also address global warming on Mars. Congress must act quickly before the martian polar caps melt. (Think of the martian polar bears!) Let us not be guilty of geo-centric thinking.

Posted by DMFD 2007-05-23 22:36|| 2007-05-23 22:36|| Front Page Top

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