the supposed environmental benefits its supporters claim it will create are an illusion.
I contend that increasing the gas tax and higher use tax, whatever you call it, is going to result in thousands of jobs.
the suggestion that the 1 billion ton limit on domestic greenhouse gas offsets that are in the Waxman bill is roughly equivalent to sequestr...
if you really believe that CO2 is causing global warming, why not just tax CO2? I mean, that is the honest way.
One of the things that concerns him the most is, we haven't talked about the specifics.
What are we doing here?
Why would we construct this big contraption of payoffs and allowances and taxes and mandates ... when all we have to do is simply say, let u...
Supporters of cap-and-trade say it is all worth it because their policy would help break our dependence on foreign oil.
I look forward to working through and discussing the many challenges ahead.
If we enact cap-and-trade legislation, fuel prices will rise, and more jobs in the trucking sector will be lost.
Do you really think, in this Washington environment, that these things are going to rebated back? I think probably not.
if the U.S. chooses to enact cap-and-trade unilaterally without China, India and other developing nations... then farmers will be forced to ...
the devil is in the details. Unfortunately, this devil has the potential to devastate our economy, reduce the standard of living for most or...
Costs matter. We should be looking for the cheap, easy way to do this, not for the hard, expensive way to do it.
consumers would pay almost $54 billion more annually for gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other petroleum products.
it's all pain for no climate gain.
I went over and met with the Farmers Coop regional group on Friday.
farm income could drop by $8 billion under cap-and-trade--and offsets will make up less than 10 percent of this lost income.
