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2009-07-17 Economy

U.S. should pay for carbon content of imported goods: Locke

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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2009-07-17 13:30|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Import tarrif in other words?

Posted by 3dc 2009-07-17 14:05|| 2009-07-17 14:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I recently spoke with a professor of environmental engineering who informed me that the real crisis related to CO2 levels is that we're presently sitting at 10% of the Earth's long-term "normal" level and that such an alarmingly low level is endangering the survival of plant life on our planet. Thus, the logical cost imposition would be on those cutting CO2 emissions, not those raising them. Which of course means that countries providing us goods should be paying us for the privilege of doing so.

Hey, this lefty "thought" stuff is kind of fun!

Posted by AzCat 2009-07-17 14:09|| 2009-07-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 AzCat, that is what more people need to know. Most plants around today first appeared when CO2 levels were about 5x today's levels. In fact, CO2 depletion is seem as what will be the ultimate cause of extinction of life as we know it on Earth. CO2 continues to be converted to things like limestone, volcanism slows as the Earth cools, CO2 levels continue to drop, the plants die, the animals that eat the plants die.

This nonsense that carbon is somehow harmful is a suicidal meme. CO2 is probably the best fertilizer we could be producing.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-07-17 15:22|| 2009-07-17 15:22|| Front Page Top

#4 CO2 - you call it pollution. I call it plant food.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-07-17 17:45|| 2009-07-17 17:45|| Front Page Top

#5 mport tarrif in other words?

Exactly! Because the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act worked SO well in the 1930's. By the end of the Obama administration, we're going to look back fondly at a mere 10% unemployment rate.

Posted by DMFD 2009-07-17 18:12|| 2009-07-17 18:12|| Front Page Top

#6 So...a car with a Japanese label made in the US with 80 percent domestic parts will be cheaper than a Big Two assembled in Mexico/Canada with 30 percent US parts? /rhetorical question

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-17 18:42|| 2009-07-17 18:42|| Front Page Top

#7 The carbon label is new, but otherwise this looks like a rerun of the Great Depression (re tarrifs).

Throw in a flu pandemic and the signs the climate is abruptly cooling and the next few years should be interesting times.

Posted by Phil_B 2009-07-17 19:42|| 2009-07-17 19:42|| Front Page Top

#8 As I said earlier, I gots my Galea and My Mirrorshades ready.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-17 20:29|| 2009-07-17 20:29|| Front Page Top

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