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winston_blade
06-03-2008, 02:04 PM
He can do something right!!!!!!

Bush to Veto Bill (http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0225568220080603?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true)

At least he'll do this. Give him a gold star for the day.

bunklocoempire
06-03-2008, 02:40 PM
Smoke & mirrors, (repubs vs. dems). This simply distracts from the real issue of the monetary situation. Repubs will go out as anti-green or good for taxpayer depending on party loyalty, Dems will be pro-green or bad for taxpayer.

Bottom line, global carbon credits/taxes as we've seen McCain, Newt and Pelosi talkin' up equals more taxes to prop up the dollar, they both take turns being the "bad guy".

Good cop/bad cop trying for the same result, don't buy into it.

Bunkloco

Pepsi
06-03-2008, 03:37 PM
S. 2191 directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, with the goal of lowering emissions 63 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2050. These reductions would be achieved through a system that would require companies to cap their emissions and then have them trade emissions rights with each other.

The emissions cuts called for in the Lieberman-Warner bill are so draconian that, as reported in Investor's Business Daily, "The Environmental Protection Agency reckons it would cost as much as $3 trillion a year in lost GDP. In an economy of roughly $14 trillion, that's a significant loss."

A number of organizations (e.g., The Heritage Foundation, Science Applications International Corporation, American Petroleum Institute) have studied the economic consequences of S. 2191 and issued reports. Their evaluations are uniformly gloomy.

The conclusions of the reports indicate that the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill would have a disastrous economic impact on businesses and consumers in all 50 states. That caused Dr. Margo Thorning, senior vice president and chief economist of the American Council on Capital Formation, to warn, "Policymakers would be wise to weigh the enormous cost of the proposed measures in view of any expected environmental benefits."

Specifically, millions of jobs would be lost, resulting in a significant drop in average household income. At the same time, electricity and gasoline prices would rise much faster than would otherwise be the case. Hardest hit would be the poor, who spend a greater proportion of their household budgets on energy.

And what would be the benefits from these sacrifices? Given the tiny proportion of greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activity, and the tiny reduction in emissions that S. 2191 would make possible, any conceivable reduction in global warming would be too small to measure. Clearly, passage of this legislation is not in the best interests of our country.

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AmericaFyeah92
06-03-2008, 03:44 PM
global warming is to democrats what terrorism is to republicans

RSLudlum
06-03-2008, 05:35 PM
WOW!!

Whats funny about a Bush veto on this bill is that McCain's campaign buddy Lieberman is a major player in pushing this bill....So it really seperates McCain from Bush a little more

What does everybody think about this fact?

James Madison
06-03-2008, 05:43 PM
global warming is to democrats what terrorism is to republicans

And both of these will lead to the same end. So, no matter who we elect we get screwed over.

qh4dotcom
06-04-2008, 08:28 AM
Another thing to give Bush credit for....he's vetoed all tax increases.

orafi
06-04-2008, 09:00 AM
global warming is to democrats what terrorism is to republicans

Word.