This gonna be BIG BIDNESS for the government-- even if it is based on an absolute fraud!!!!
"Under the system, the government would cap the total level of pollution allowed each year and sell licenses allowing companies to release carbons into the atmosphere only up to that level."
"Markey bill would slash greenhouse emissions; Requires licenses for major polluters" by Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | May 28, 2008
WASHINGTON - Representative Edward J. Markey, the chairman of the special House committee on global warming, will unveil sweeping legislation today to cut greenhouse gas emissions and raise billions of dollars to create alternative sources of energy.
The bill - the culmination of more than 40 hearings by Markey's committee - marks the starting point for a new legislative battle against global warming, a centerpiece of congressional Democrats' agenda for the immediate future.
Here's some HOT FART MIST for you, DemocraPs: Pffffffft!
Markey, a Malden Democrat, described the legislation, which would take effect in 2012, as the most aggressive plan yet for arresting global climate change, mandating an 85 percent cut in greenhouse gases over the next four decades.
The most controversial part of the plan would be the so-called cap-and-trade plan under which major polluters would have to purchase licenses through a government auction to cover the amount of ozone-depleting carbons they produce.
So when do they start crawling up YOUR ASS for YOU CARBON "FOOTPRINT," readers?
I predict there will be a chip that is inserted into everyone's anus to record methane levels in farts, and weight levels of shit.
Hey, you wanna stop global warming, right?
Then drop trou and bend over!
Wait a minute, isn't ozone depletion and global-warming two different phenomena?
Pffffffffttt!
Under the system, the government would cap the total level of pollution allowed each year and sell licenses allowing companies to release carbons into the atmosphere only up to that level....
Ummm, excuse me, but this sounds an AWFUL LOT like COMMUNISM!!!!!
Why did we "fight" the Soviets, then?
The proceeds from these auctions - estimated to be as much as $8 trillion between 2012 and 2050 - would be "recycled" to pay for the development of new low-carbon technologies and to help offset the painful increases in energy prices for American consumers....
That's what GOVERNMENT ALWAYS SAYS and it NEVER WORKS OUT THAT WAY!!!
The money is LOOTED by POWERFUL SPECIAL INTERESTS (thanks, Ron Paul)!!!!
The 400-page bill, a copy of which was provided to the Globe yesterday, has several major thrusts.
First, it would mandate that greenhouse gas emissions in the United States be reduced to 15 percent of 2005 levels by 2050, while putting in place new environmental standards for coal mines, landfills, wastewater treatment plants, and large animal feeding operations, all of which contribute to dangerous levels of greenhouse gases.
Really?
Then please explain: Correlation of Carbon Dioxide with Temperatures Negative Again
It would also provide financial incentives to farmers and forest managers to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Each year beginning in 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency would auction off the pollution licenses to American industry, a process similar to what the EPA now does to limit the production of chemicals that cause acid rain.
A small percentage of industries that are especially energy-intensive and face heavy international competition - such as iron and steel, aluminum, cement, bulk glass, and paper - would be exempt from the licenses until 2020, at which time they, too, would have to purchase the right to pollute.
Government choosing favorites again, I see!
A new office set up at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission would oversee the licensing process to prevent fraud and market manipulation, according to the bill.
More BUREAUCRACY!!!
The proceeds from these auctions would be used to fund research into clean energy technologies, and to retrain workers who lose their jobs as the American economy becomes "greener."
Oh, great!! RETRAIN to WHAT?!
This is the SAME CRAP they SHOVELED TO US about NAFTA and all the rest!!!!
I guess that planned 80% reduction in population will sure come in handy!
A substantial portion of the proceeds would also be used to provide low- and middle-income Americans - those households earning $70,000 per year or less, constituting about 66 percent of the country - with rebates and tax credits "to help compensate for any increase in energy costs as a result of climate legislation," according to a summary of the Markey bill.
Translation: BEND OVER, America!!!!!!
So much for FREE MARKETS, 'eh, readers?
The bill also creates a fund to offer assistance to developing countries like China and India that carry out their own aggressive programs to reduce emissions, and would financially penalize foreign industries that export energy-intensive goods to the United States if they fail to take similar action to reduce emissions by 2020...."
But, but, but... isn't that PROTECTIONISM?!
More TAXPAYER MONEY going out the FOREIGN DOOR, 'eh, readers?!!!
How's that shit bowl of environmentalism going down? Oh.
Here's a gas chaser then. OPEN UP!!!!!!