Today, in the wake of the announcement of Obama's Climate Action Plan - a plan that is, if anything, too conservative based on recent climate change reports - at least one supporter of the fossil fuel industry has proven that he'll say anything to protect his big money supporters. Even if it's patently absurd.
Sen. Mitch McConnell - no fringe Republican he - today said that the Administration's rules wouldn't have any meaningful effect on the global climate, and that "they could actually end up harming the environment by outsourcing energy production to countries with poor environmental records like India and China."
Yep - we'll just outsource that energy production to China and India. And then we'll ship it across the ocean in cheap shipping containers like any other product, where it could be sold to West Virginians and folks from Wyoming whose jobs we outsourced because of this policy. Perhaps Sen. McConnell needs a lesson in energy transmission and storage in the same way that Sen. Ted Stevens needed a lesson in the Internet.