Cap and Trade costs

[GAR]

Why can't the volcanoes, geysers and tectonic fissures calculated against the hot air created by civilization?

If the Carbon Homos can get away with quantifying how much damage a deep exhale can do to the environment, they must certainly be capable of calculating how much hot air damage the environment does to civilization.

I hope Al Gore tries to tax God. God will fucken kick his ass!

[GAR]

The cost of building a green economy could be paid entirely, in fact, by the richest one percent of the United States,

By "green economy" they mean a way to buy and sell permissions to exhale, to exhaust your vehicle, to cook a stew.. the way to green the economy is to compost the DNC for biofuel production.

[Nickdfresh]

By "green economy" they mean a way to buy and sell permissions to exhale, to exhaust your vehicle, to cook a stew.. the way to green the economy is to compost the DNC for biofuel production.

Try idling in the garage, assbandit...

[Big Train]

Yeah, it's "weak" alright...



Wonk Room » Weekly Standard Compounds $3100 GOP Lie With A $3900 Lie

Wonkette (and you are on me about MY sources?), explain to me how it is a lie if the guy who did the study himself says his math was off and essentially agrees with the GOP ballpark figures. It requires a bit of voodoo.

It's a curious assumption that this money will magically (to keep with the theme of the article) be reabsorbed and redistributed somewhere further down the trough. It's wishful thinking to be generous. It's possible in theory that perhaps a park will be built or a someone will get food stamps or that the nation's debt would be retired. There is no concrete way to guage how that money might cycle through the system, so those numbers are essentially meaningless.

Exxon example was interesting. Exxon is not a tax on the American people, it's a cost. Likewise, this "tax" is a cost.

Summer's Eve asked above what my interest is in this. I don't like artificial add-on taxes based on un-debated science adding undue stress on an economy trying to recover.

With gas prices going drastically up and down, there is opportunity enough on the basis of pure capitalism alone to begin switching to a cleaner running economy. The huge fleets who have already invested in low sulfur or biodiesel, electric and aerodynamic fleets (fuckin WalMart even) made those decisions on naturally existing supply and demand. They did not need government getting involved to come to that conclusion.

[LoungeMachine]

the GOP ballpark figures.

stop.

sides hurt.