$ 1,100 Dividend Checks Per Year To Fight Global Warming

[SevenEyedJeff]

Here's a new plan to install a global warming tax. Make it look like you're going to get money from the deal, even though your energy costs will go way up.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/23/news...dend/index.htm

A new proposal to curb global warming could jump start stalled Senate greenhouse gas discussions and put an average of $1,100 a year back into the pockets of American consumers.

Known as cap-and-dividend, the recently introduced bill would require oil, coal, and natural gas companies to buy permits each month to sell their fuel. Three quarters of the proceeds would be returned to the public each month in the form of a dividend check, with the remaining money going towards renewable energy, conservation or assistance programs.

[Texan4Life]

and let me guess yearly energy bills are going to go up 3,000 a year.

wow what an awesome plan.

[2orb]

One thing is for sure. Energy will increase at least as much as the permits cost -- and the consumer will get 3/4 of his increase back? Can't wait.

[TheEvilDetector]

It sounds like a brilliant plan!!

If you're a RETARD.

[SevenEyedJeff]

The people behind cap and trade need a way to get the people behind it, and if the government is proposing giving them money, do you think the sheep would go for it? The government likes to make it look good at first, and then a year or two or three after it passes, they pull the rug out from under ya.

Maybe this is the new angle they will be trying to go. Economic incentives to get enough of the dummies behind it.

[coyote_sprit]

What's funny is that people will blame the free market when their energy prices sky rocket.