White House slams climate bill

So does anyone in Washington actually pay attention to the American people? Americans are tired of being dictated and controlled. The alternative energy industry is more popular than ever, everyone is becoming more and more aware of our impact on this earth and we are being held hostage at the gas pump. Economic potential? There is an abundance of it yet big petroleum is running our government right now and the last thing they want is to lose their precious money. Forget about the future of humanity or your great grandchildren, I want my disposable wealth now! Please. The sad thing is, the only way we are going to save ourselves and this earth is through unity and government regulations....and the regulations are obviously not going to happen anytime soon.

why can't this government cut foriegn war spending and invest in our education, environment and infrastructure. we need to focus on the self.

It must be creepy right now to be a conservative, who can only blame the responsible progressives for any Bush shortfalls, calling them the GOP stigmatic undesirable 'L' word.

With all the 'hot air' coming out of D.C. these days, all we have to do is expell this administration and the CO2 problem is solved for a while and that will also clean up the environment, at least in D.C.

Why is it, so many elitists with such narrow minds can have such big footprints..?

It would cost trillions of dollars to enforce the bill? Are you kidding with me?
But yeah, it's okay to waste trillions of dollars on the Iraq war, which is ruining the environment and diplomatic relations. Way to go, President.

I love you thank you so much

* clayjj05

Sorry, I'll try to rephrase more creatively next time :)

"Will he never be held accountable for his actions"

I vote on banning this line from current

Do we have to use that line with every new thing someone submits?

The gas has gone up already .50 cents? Why are they worried about 20 years from now. By then we'll be dead unless we start to do something!!!

I guess they really want to take that money to the grave.

Will he never be held accountable for his actions?

This is another classic example of playing of on people's fears to drive a short term agenda when we should really be thinking about long term solutions.

Gas prices increase by $.53 over 22 years? That's 0.6% per year, far below typical inflation rates of 2-3%. And what is that based on? Assuming we continue to use gas at the same rate we are today? Thanks to great innovation in hybrid cars, the trend is moving away from gas fueled cars towards cleaner, less expensive fuel.

GDP reduction by 7%? Again, what is this based on? Lost income in the fossil fuel industry? What happens when this income is replaced by new, innovative industries producing clean energy? The fear of GDP loss has been stoked many times before when governments push against environmental reform--but the GDP losses have never materialized because new innovation replaces old, outdated industries.

dgold0101, the reason people are concerned with US pollution is cited here in The Washington Post: "Americans represent 5 percent of the world's population but contribute 45 percent of the world's emission of carbon dioxide, the main pollutant that causes global warming, according to a report by the nonprofit group Environmental Defense." Sure, India and China are becoming big polluters too, but as the original massive polluter, the US needs to set an example for them to follow.

We need to cut our addiction to oil and move on.

I'd love to give him a break. I'd break my foot off in his Ass!

This is stupid. If the White House backed the bill it would be ignored because they did something good. And even then every one would be calling Bush for messing up the economy. Give Bush a break.

ok everyone i respect your spirit you cant just get off of gas in a split second, your probably all liberal so let me break it down in a real easy way.

You as liberal love poor people.
By switching off of gasoline, it would almost make their lives impossible. Are you gonna by them a new way to get around? Or convert their 82 oldsmobile to run on somthing else. Are you gonna pay for their 5 dollar a gallon gas when you idiots continue to tax it?
Wait i think i know you wont pay for it directly you will just support taxes so that ALL of us have to pay for it.

You guys cant have your cake and eat it too
which is more important,
poor people or your precious enviorment

7 years left untill the world burns up, you guys better decide real quick!!!!

Kill rich lying bastards with politcal lobbying forsite, now!

They honestly think we're going to continue our use of gasoline like we do now? Who cares if the price soars. Hopefully by then we won't be using only gasoline! Saving our environment is way more important than 53 cents more for gas. Idiots.

onechance, do you know that it takes fossil fuels to make solar panels, E85, and windmills? In fact, we need alot of fossil fuels to make green products. All you're doing to offseting where the cause of the pollution is coming from.
Accurate and representative temperature measurements from satellites and balloons show that the planet has cooled significantly in the last two or three years, losing in only 18 months 15% of the claimed warming which took over 100 years to appear — that warming was only one degree fahrenheit (half of one degree Celsius) anyway, and part of this is a systematic error from groundstation readings which are inflated due to the ‘urban heat island effect’ i.e. local heat retention due to urban sprawl, not global warming…and it is these, ‘false high’ ground readings which are then programmed into the disreputable climate models, which live up to the GIGO acronym — garbage in, garbage out.

they dont care, they do NOT care

they dont even care for their own constituency

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/cheney-makes-incest-joke_n_104761.html

THEY DO NOT CARE

Who said Bush had a brain? He is spraying his territory until such time as the pest control comes in and whisks him out. He is an exploiter. His actions reveal that humanity is a moot point - that $MUNNEY$ is everything to him and his little helpers --even if they exterminate a planet to get it! Oops! So, let us watch our own carbon footprints while he steps deeper into his karma footprint(s).

Transformation is a bitch, but we'd better get going on it...

"I just don't get how he can say this bill will hurt future generations..."

Easy.
Lower GDP
Higher Taxes
Loss of jobs.

All for fixing something that dubious at best.

"This FEAR of loss of economic growth is a very old one. This was the same argument made over the great debate of slavery."

Are you seriously comparing the increase of taxationa nd regulation to the issue of Slavery over 140 years ago in the US?

Im fine with rising gas prices in order to save our planet. 53 cents over the course of 22 years....um, I think gas prices rose about 100 cents in one year this year, so about 2 pennies a year isnt that bad. Besides, it will get people to use cleaner cars and better ways of transportation. In Europe they have adapted, im sure we can. We need to use metros, buses, trains, etc... more. People use cars and spend more money to get to work than trains, I dont think americans are as educated about their choices as we think.

I cant believe we have 6 months left of this utter and complete idiot, oh and liar, of a president.

This FEAR of loss of economic growth is a very old one. This was the same argument made over the great debate of slavery. They thought the economy would suffer without use of slaves. Wrong! Here we are again. Our slave of today is fossil fuel and the rape of the planet for it. We need to get past this small brain thinking if we plan to live on this planet much longer.

More Proof we need Four more years!!!!
Vote McCain-Diebold in '08

Why would you oppose the cap-and-trade program for CO2? It's a new development and seems like it could work. Even though if we cut off all the world emissions tomorrow, it would still take hundreds of years for all the gases to dissipitate throughout the air, before they no longer pose a threat. But we could at least ACT like we care? And then saying that this climate bill will cause gas prices to rise? How? Because we all know it's going to rise anyways, and then the other hand is saying that the government has nothing to do with gas prices anyways.... WTF?

I just don't know anymore...

Have a problem?
Tax it.
Have a perceived problem?
Tax it.
Cost going up?
Tax it.

Must be great to be a Liberal. Always have the same answer to every problem.....real or not.

I wish it were over

Reducing the US dependency on gasoline and oil should be a priority both in terms of foreign policy and the environment.

The young generation can withstand slow economic growth, even a full global recession but our tolerance for ridiculous wars and huge environmental damage is stretched beyond belief.

The UK has some of the highest gas prices in the world yet still manages to function. I disagree that this would destroy some of the lower income families, people are more adaptable than we think, it will change people's standards of living but is it not a fair trade?

I've heard reports of this bill causing gasoline to hit $8 a gallon over time (though this story said only 53 cents by 2030). If this is true, then I stand by our administration's opposition of the bill.

I'll probably get flamed for saying this, but there are plenty of people out there that would be destroyed by such prices. If people can't afford to drive, an entirely new can of worms is opened. Sure, there needs to be a push for heightened climate control, but if it's at the cost of the lower/middle class, we're drastically altering America's standard of living in the here and now.

I guess one of the plus sides to rising prices at the pump is that it's going to eventually force people to drive cleaner vehicles, but introducing a bill that directly effects prices on our behalf doesn't sit well with me right now.

Bush never saw an environmental or labor safety law he liked anyway. Think about his life. He has bankrupted everything he ever touched including Texas and the USA. Then he set out to destroy the world. He has been amazingly successful at destruction.

meanwhile, we keep subsidizing biofuels, which drives up the price of corn, which gives soybean farmers impetus to stop farming soybeans and to start farming corn, which in turn causes farmers in Brazil to plant soybeans and displace cattle ranchers. So, Brazilian cattle ranchers raze the Brazilian rainforest to plant soybeans, causing biofuels to release twice as much carbon into the atmosphere than gasoline. The amount of food an SUV's tank holds in biofuel can feed a person for a year.

The Bush Adminstration is an organized criminal organization that should be brought to trial under the RICO statutes, amonst others. Dicatorships are illegal in the United States, and the GOP's and Bush's absolute power has corrupted this once-fine nation absolutely. It will take decades to repair the damage they have wrought, if they are repairable at all.

The Bush clock is ticking down and no one will ever wind the f****er again!!!!!

Bush wants to assure himself and his cronies lifetimes of bad Karma. Keep your eye out for a plague of unprecedented proportions to strike Crawford, Texas. Bushy, you're certainly earning your way to centuries of bad references in the history textbooks!

It seems a lot of bad things are happening in 2012.

the environmental cost will far outweigh a simple price hike in gasoline if we dont cap our emissions yesterday.

ooops. dead.

Do they not realize that Gas should no longer be part of the equation? I don't care if I "have" to pay $500 per gallon. I'll be charging my electric car at home.

"gasoline prices could soar by as much as 53 cents a gallon by 2030"

correct me if I'm wrong but didn't gas prices go up about 50 cents in the past year? he's saying 53 cents in 20 years is alot?

Fellow Californians, lets make California a country of its own, and let's stop dealing with these monkeys.

They obviously didn't read the bill. But it doesn't surprise me they would be against anything helping this environment in any way. They should have impeached him LONG ago. Funny thing is, they are actually slamming a bill institutional investors want with even stricter emissions standards.

http://current.com/items/88994150_investors_demand_tougher_us_climate_legislatio...

The Bush Regime: once again on the WRONG side. And I don't exactly see them doing anything about the high gas prices we have now because of their sleeping with the oil companies.

How many more days is he in office?? Too many for the enviroment. This is getting so ridiculous. Anything that tries to help the climate crisis is automatically condemned. What a jerk.

The funny thing is, NOBODY elected this chimp asshole. They stole the White house.

The few brain dead people that DID vote for Chimpy weren't enough to actually elect him, so in came Diebold to rig the numbers.

Gotta keep that GDP growing, even at the expense of our environment. Idiots. There is a ton of economic growth opportunity in solar, wind, green building, etc. and we are going to let the rest of the world take advantage of it while Bush looks out for his oil and coal buddies. Idiots. Who elected this ahole?

fuckers.