Theres a Washington Post story today about a proposed Energy bill that two of the Senators running for president will be presenting in the Senate. They have been
pursuing climate change legislation since 2003, but the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress repeatedly rejected their proposals
Under the proposed bill
Their "cap-and-trade" plan would place a ceiling on emissions of six kinds of greenhouse gases. It would allow emitters from four sectors -- electric utilities, transportation, general industry and commercial -- to either reduce emissions outright or buy tradable permits to comply with the rules.
In the story theres an interesting note that:
In the House of Representatives, Rep. John Dingell, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, has called for hearings on climate change, and has invited former Vice President Al Gore to testify, according to a letter Dingell sent to Gore on Thursday.
With catastrophic climate change already lapping at the shores of our little human civilisation that lasted only 120,000 years...
Can Al Gore save us from the evildoers who don't care that we are destroying our chance at survival?
...such as this idiot camped out on the Energy Committee website front page:
Maybe, now that even the rich could be affected by CO2-driven sealevel rise
and its attendant insurance costs...
...there might now be a possibility of bipartisan support to put Inohofe and Joe Barton in the Minority on the Energy Committee.
This very week the last of Nancy Pelosis 100 hours legislation is coming up for a vote: we can make congress vote to save this planet:This Thursday congress votes on shifting $13 billion to renewables.
Specifically, the measure ensures oil companies that were awarded the 1998 and 1999 leases for drilling paid their fair share in royalties. It also closes loopholes and ends giveaways in the tax code for Big Oil, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says on her website.
The bill creates a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve to invest in clean, renewable energy resources, promoting new emerging technologies, developing greater efficiency and improving energy conservation.
Or are we all going to let these few idiots send us all back to the CO2-rich climate of the Eocene when alligators cheerfully basked in the warm waters of the Arctic...?
HOW DO YOU WANT YOUR CONGRESS TO VOTE THURSDAY ?
Call the switchboard now and let them HEAR US ROAR !!!!!