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June 30, 2009

Cap-and-Trade is Tax and Regulate

When asked why he read portions of the cap-and-trade bill on the floor of the House Friday night, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Hill, "Hey, people deserve to know what's in this pile of shit."

Rep. Boehner labeled it correctly in one word.  Even so, there’s a bit of background to this story that readers may find interesting.  For instance, the leadership over at EPA is intentionally lying to the American people about CO2 “pollution”.

Judson Berger at Fox News reported that “Sen. Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into 'Suppressed' Climate Change Report,” which should get every good American’s blood boiling after the House passing that stupid Cap-and-Trade bill last week:

A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency's alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming.

The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin's report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined.

"He came out with the truth. They don't want the truth at the EPA," Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying he's ordered an investigation. "We're going to expose it." 

The controversy comes after the House of Representatives passed a landmark bill to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, one that Inhofe said will be "dead on arrival" in the Senate despite President Obama's energy adviser voicing confidence in the measure.

But wait . . . there’s even more recent “news” about this foolishness of trying to limit the amount of “carbon” dioxide available to carbon based life in a carbon based world.  In the words of Dr. Tim Ball, an environmental consultant and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, “An energy policy built on the lie that human CO2 is causing global warming is likely to fail.  It is a bigger lie when CO2 is incorrectly called carbon.”  That in itself is real food for thought, but then Professor Ball goes on the clarify a little: 

A scientific definition of carbon dioxide (CO2) is; a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration.  So basically carbon is a solid and CO2 is a gas. They claim CO2 can slow heat escape from the atmosphere and an increase from human activity causes warming. It has not happened at any time and is not happening now. Carbon occurs as particles of soot in the atmosphere causing cooling by blocking sunlight. I expect them to blame soot for failure of their warming predictions.

What we’ve got here is an administration wanting a reason for harsh regulations and instructing an administrative agency to insure it happens.  Then the House came along to pass a draconian cap-and-trade bill where, as it seems, every socialist Democrat in the place added in their favorite control legislation, just because they could.  Now we see that even EPA’s own people do not believe any of that is necessary -- and the whole concept is a big scam, anyway.

Why is this all getting shoved into federal law and regulation in such a hurry?  Easy.  One needs only to follow the money trail.

The legislation/regulation has many wealthy lobbyists enticing legislators and regulators to get this “cap and trade” scheme to be the law of the land simply because there is money to be made from it.  Lots of money.  In fact, a very lot of money!   As any thinking person knows, none of this foolishness has anything whatsoever to do with global warming.  It’s just a way for traders to levy a hidden tax and make money from the misfortune of many million of other unsuspecting Americans.  The Democrats (and a few Republicans) in Washington are making that all possible. 

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