Showing posts with label Cap and Trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cap and Trade. Show all posts
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Obama's Same Old Climate Game With the Chinese
Is the President Obama's climate change agreement really a game changer? Well I guess that depends on how you define the current game we are playing with the Chinese and what new game we are now supposed to play. China has agreed to set a target of reaching a peak in its carbon emissions by 2030; what is going to happen after that is vague and it's also non binding.
The US-China climate change deal is terrible
On the other hand, The President Obama has offered up for the US pretty much the same plan he committed to after the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in 2009; to reduce carbon emissions in the US 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, 42% below 2005 levels by 2030
Climate change policy of the United States
his new deal with the Chinese the President would cut US carbon admissions between 26 and 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. So it seems all the President has accomplished, is to give the Chinese (already the top carbon polluter) permission to build dirty coal fired power plants to their hearts content for the next 15 years , while the President continues to play his 2009 carbon emissions reduction plan game, which includes closing down clean coal power plants ("Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,") here at home. Obama said energy costs will skyrocket with his cap and trade Sounds like President Obama's same old game to me.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
The Democrats Lost the House Because They Gave Us Two More Years Of Bush
The Democrats did not loose the House because they managed to get the car out of the ditch, it was because they sat there spinning the wheels, burying the car to the wheel wells and then claimed we were out of the ditch; well were not out of the ditch. Here is what you missed, the Republicans under Bush 43 where a fiscal disaster, but the Democrats did nothing to reverse the trend. Obama has ramped up the war in Afghanistan for nothing more than political expedience. Bush seemed oblivious to Katrina and Obama seemed oblivious to the Gulf Oil Spill. What is rarely mentioned is the TARP money Bush loaned to the banks has been repaid with interest, but Obama, rather then returning the money, showed the repayment as income, in a sense paying for his stimulus with repaid TARP money; just more fiscal irresponsibility. The Democrats claimed to fix the cause of the economic melt down with there Financial reform, but did nothing to rein on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or the derivative market that caused it all.
Next, the American people have finally had enough with the big lie of the Keynesian stimulus; sorry Joe, but were not buying your,‘we have to borrow money to pay down the debt.’ Stimuluses don’t work and only balloon the debt by trillions of dollars. Next you have Healthcare reform; no different than the unfounded Medicare drug benefit, but on steroids. After all the promises that Obamacare would not increase the debt, the reality, which everybody already knew, is it is going to drive up the price of healthcare and add trillions of dollars to the debt over the next 10-20 years. Finally, you cannot legislate technology. While it will always be the necessity to protect the environment, environmental protection will not result in reducing our dependence on foreign oil, it will increase it, at least in the foreseeable future; that is irrefutable. Fossil fuel is what drives the world’s economies. There is nothing else even close and nothing dawning on the horizon to replace it. If the US does not get its oil in-country, it will need to buy it from foreign countries (many of whom don’t like us very much). The United States has the cleanest processing plants and factories in the world, with the possible exception of Japan. Your Cap and Trade will force industry out of the US with its clean technologies, to China and India who have little regard for environment. And until a miracle happens (i.e. some technological leap), Cap and Trade will result in hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes, much of which will used to subsidize green jobs that increase unemployment by 2 to1 and some of which will be sent to other countries.
The Democrats lost the House because, rather than "Hope and Change" they offered "More of the Same". After all the rhetoric about the public not wanting 4 more years of Bush, they have so far given two more years of Bush regardless. The American voter has no real faith in the Republicans, but it also has no faith in the Democrats. The party of “no” has simply become the party of “stop!” Stop the spending.“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
Next, the American people have finally had enough with the big lie of the Keynesian stimulus; sorry Joe, but were not buying your,‘we have to borrow money to pay down the debt.’ Stimuluses don’t work and only balloon the debt by trillions of dollars. Next you have Healthcare reform; no different than the unfounded Medicare drug benefit, but on steroids. After all the promises that Obamacare would not increase the debt, the reality, which everybody already knew, is it is going to drive up the price of healthcare and add trillions of dollars to the debt over the next 10-20 years. Finally, you cannot legislate technology. While it will always be the necessity to protect the environment, environmental protection will not result in reducing our dependence on foreign oil, it will increase it, at least in the foreseeable future; that is irrefutable. Fossil fuel is what drives the world’s economies. There is nothing else even close and nothing dawning on the horizon to replace it. If the US does not get its oil in-country, it will need to buy it from foreign countries (many of whom don’t like us very much). The United States has the cleanest processing plants and factories in the world, with the possible exception of Japan. Your Cap and Trade will force industry out of the US with its clean technologies, to China and India who have little regard for environment. And until a miracle happens (i.e. some technological leap), Cap and Trade will result in hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes, much of which will used to subsidize green jobs that increase unemployment by 2 to1 and some of which will be sent to other countries.
The Democrats lost the House because, rather than "Hope and Change" they offered "More of the Same". After all the rhetoric about the public not wanting 4 more years of Bush, they have so far given two more years of Bush regardless. The American voter has no real faith in the Republicans, but it also has no faith in the Democrats. The party of “no” has simply become the party of “stop!” Stop the spending.“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Tax Oil?
The following is my letter to the editor that appeared in the Santa Cruz Sentential June 15, 2010.
When I read Jeffrey Scharf's editorial on Sunday, I couldn't help but ask, what is it this guy smoking? Tax oil? One would hope with the rescission and high unemployment the government could come up with something other than making a necessity more expensive. It is well known that an oil tax, much like a VAT tax is the most oppressive tax one can lay the poor and middle class. You see, not only will an oil tax necessarily make gasoline skyrocket (ala cap and trade), it will increase the cost of every consumer item that needs to be transported, which is pretty much everything. America's reliance on automobiles has resulted in communities that are spread out and not as amendable to mass transit; many Americans drive 30-60 miles or more a day to work. Mr Scharf, how about we let this emergency go to waste and let cooler heads prevail? If the government would just get out of the way with it's tax and spending ways, American innovation would be able to take car of this problem. No problem has ever been solved by more taxes.
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When I read Jeffrey Scharf's editorial on Sunday, I couldn't help but ask, what is it this guy smoking? Tax oil? One would hope with the rescission and high unemployment the government could come up with something other than making a necessity more expensive. It is well known that an oil tax, much like a VAT tax is the most oppressive tax one can lay the poor and middle class. You see, not only will an oil tax necessarily make gasoline skyrocket (ala cap and trade), it will increase the cost of every consumer item that needs to be transported, which is pretty much everything. America's reliance on automobiles has resulted in communities that are spread out and not as amendable to mass transit; many Americans drive 30-60 miles or more a day to work. Mr Scharf, how about we let this emergency go to waste and let cooler heads prevail? If the government would just get out of the way with it's tax and spending ways, American innovation would be able to take car of this problem. No problem has ever been solved by more taxes.
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