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Romney: Scientists can figure out global warming 50 years from now

By Muriel Kane Friday, December 9, 2011 When asked about his views on climate... more

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Cap and Trade explained in under 10 Mins ( Video)

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A Man-Made Energy Crisis

Gas is well over $4 a gallon in most places in California — and soaring elsewhere as well. But are such high energy prices good or bad?

That should be a stupid question. Yet it is not, when the Obama administration has stopped new domestic offshore oil exploration in many American waters, curbed oil leases in the West, and keeps oil-rich areas of Alaska exempt from drilling. Last week, President Obama went to Brazil and declared of that country’s new offshore finds: “With the new oil finds off Brazil, President [Dilma] Rousseff has said that Brazil wants to be a major supplier of new stable sources of energy, and I’ve told her that the United States wants to be a major customer, which would be a win-win for both our countries.”

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Consider the logic of the president’s Orwellian declaration: The United States in the last two years has restricted oil exploration of the sort Brazil is now rushing to embrace. We have run up more than $4 trillion in consecutive budget deficits during the Obama administration and are near federal insolvency. Therefore, the United States should be happy to borrow more money to purchase the sort of “new stable sources of energy” from Brazil’s offshore wells that we most certainly will not develop off our own coasts.
It seems as if paying lots more for electricity and gas, in European fashion, was originally part of the president’s new green agenda. He helped push cap-and-trade legislation through the House of Representatives in 2009. Had such Byzantine regulations become law, a recessionary economy would have sunk into depression. Obama appointed the incompetent Van Jones as “green-jobs czar” — until Jones’s wild rantings confirmed that he knew nothing about his job description “to advance the administration’s climate and energy initiatives.”

At a time of trillion-dollar deficits, the administration is borrowing billions to promote high-speed rail, and is heavily invested in the federally subsidized $42,000 Government Motors Chevy Volt. Apparently the common denominator here is a deductive view that high energy prices will force Americans to emulate European centrally planned and state-run transportation.

That conclusion is not wild conspiracy theory, but simply the logical manifestation of many of the Obama administration’s earlier campaign promises. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu — now responsible for the formulation of American energy policy — summed up his visions to the Wall Street Journal in 2008: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” I think Chu is finally figuring out the “somehow.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262941/man-made-energy-crisis-victor-davis-hanson?page=1Gas is well over $4 a gallon in most places in California — and soaring... more

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Treason: Obama Shuts Down Power Plants Coast to Coast

Fury is building over rolling nationwide blackouts triggered by the Obama... more

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Feds Teaching Farmers to Join Carbon Markets the Don't Exist Yet

(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is teaching farmers... more

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Obama's new tax on...Rainwater!?

Would President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to... more

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Al Gore’s Chicago Climate Exchange closes down carbon trading operations

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Today Show Halloween Costumes 2010 | Meo News

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(VIDEO) Wealthy Multi-Millionare Nancy Pelosi ‘All About Fairness’ With Your Money, JUST NOT HERS!!!

Pelosi: ‘It’s All About Fairness in Our Country’ October 19,... more

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GOP Gives Climate Science A Cold Shoulder

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Congress on the verge of passing a Cap and Trade scheme to hike taxes by $650 BILLION

With Congress on the verge of passing a Cap and Trade scheme to hike taxes by $650... more

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The Five Cockrings Died

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Can Senator Merkley's Energy Intervention get us off Oil? (Webisode 204)

While many greens (you know who you are) are mourning the death of the cap and... more

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Senate Democrats Seek to Exploit Oil Spill to Ramrod Climate Bill

DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE say they will exploit the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to ramrod through legislation addressing claims about cataclysmic global warming that objective scientists agree are spurious. According to a recent report in a mainstream New York daily, a summary of a closed-door Senate Democratic caucus meeting, leaked to the press, reveals that Democrats are seeking to use the spill as leverage to force Republican support, essentially saying that failure to vote for a climate change bill that is loaded down with new oil drilling regulations is a vote for Big Oil polluters.

In recent reports, AFP reporter Victor Thorn has been making the case that the internationalists see the disaster as an ideal time to force through new global climate change laws that will be profitable for them. What the Democrats are really going for is something known as “cap and trade.” In a nutshell, this involves bureaucrats setting carbon-emission standards on all U.S. factories. That is the “cap” portion of the plan. The “trade” part comes into play when factories cannot meet the levels set by government regulators.

Those corporations will then have to turn to others, who meet or come in under the emissions standards that have been imposed upon them. The companies that exceed their government-imposed standards will then be able to purchase or trade other companies’ remaining emissions levels so as to raise their own.

A new breed of carbon capitalists on Wall Street are already champing at the bit to create a market for “cap and trade,” whereby corporations will be able to trade emissions levels like they buy and sell commodities or swap stock. Of course, slash-and-burn speculators will also be able to get in on the horse trading, betting on futures and formulating exotic derivatives based on who will and will not be able to meet government imposed levels.

That is grounds enough for voting against cap and trade. However, the bigger problem stems from what the program will do to American business.

Heavy taxation and onerous regulations have already driven many corporations out of the United States in search of cheap or slave labor and limited government, where they can make a profit. Meanwhile, those patriotic companies that have chosen to stay in the United States will face even more complex regulations. In a continuing cycle that further squeezes domestic industry, the costs will be passed down to Main Street, making it even harder for consumers in the United States.

http://americanfreepress.net/html/ramrod_climate_bill_228.htmlDEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE say they will exploit the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of... more

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BP Wrote Cap and Trade. Plot Thickens...

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Senate aide says Cap and Trade dead, scaled-back bill likely

Comprehensive energy legislation is likely off the table after the departure of Sen.... more

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Building a Green Economy: Krugman on Climate Legislation

If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to... more

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Tokyo kicks off carbon trading scheme

Japanese metropolis launches Asia's first emissions cap-and-trade scheme.... more

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