by Mark Silva
Here's a newspaper that Sarah Palin might like to read:
Palin, the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in 2008 who wasn't immediately able to name any of the newspapers that she read during a campaign television interview last year, has penned an Op-ed piece in today's Washington Post. Palin even takes a poke at the national media that she loves to hate.
And Palin, the Alaska governor quitting this month 18 months short of her term's end citing all the burden on the state of all the "insane'' ethics complaints which she has been fending off back home, makes it clear today that she may be stepping out of one role but remains eager to step into another one.
Here, as Ronald Reagan might say, she goes again:
The nation faces daunting problems, the highest unemployment in 26 years, unprecedented government intervention and more, Palin writes today. "Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:''
Today's target: The cap and trade centerpiece of the energy bill that has narrowly cleared the House, with the help of eight Republican votes despite 44 Democratic defections, a bill that President Barack Obama is promoting as a means of encouraging polluters to seek alternative sources of energy, wind and solar, with caps on the greenhouse gases they can emit and trading of emissions rights among them.
Palin call is "an enormous threat.''
She also calls it what her party calls it: 'Cap and tax.''
And a "dead end.''
See the argument of the soon-departing Alaska governor' and returning national voice in Palin's Op-ed in the Post and here in the Swamp:
The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End
By Sarah Palin
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
"There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.
Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:
I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.
American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president's cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.
There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy.
Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.
In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.
The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.
The Americans hit hardest will be those already struggling to make ends meet. As the president eloquently puts it, their electricity bills will "necessarily skyrocket." So much for not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
Even Warren Buffett, an ardent Obama supporter, admitted that under the cap-and-tax scheme, "poor people are going to pay a lot more for electricity."
We must move in a new direction. We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil. Just as important, we have more desire and ability to protect the environment than any foreign nation from which we purchase energy today.
In Alaska, we are progressing on the largest private-sector energy project in history. Our 3,000-mile natural gas pipeline will transport hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of our clean natural gas to hungry markets across America. We can safely drill for U.S. oil offshore and in a tiny, 2,000-acre corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if ever given the go-ahead by Washington bureaucrats.
Of course, Alaska is not the sole source of American energy. Many states have abundant coal, whose technology is continuously making it into a cleaner energy source. Westerners literally sit on mountains of oil and gas, and every state can consider the possibility of nuclear energy.
We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama's plan will result in the latter.
For so many reasons, we can't afford to kill responsible domestic energy production or clobber every American consumer with higher prices.
Can America produce more of its own energy through strategic investments that protect the environment, revive our economy and secure our nation?
Yes, we can. Just not with Barack Obama's energy cap-and-tax plan.''
Comments
she is right on
gore and obama are crooks and stand to make big bucks on this fiasco
the rest of the world has caught on and didn't follow dumbo at the g8 wake up america
Posted by: downeaster | July 14, 2009 7:46 AM
Funny how Sarah (I was for the bridge to nowhere before I was against it) forgets the stance she and her running mate McCain had on cap and trade. (palling around with terrorists) Palin certainly knows how to play the slow minded minority. Bumper sticker barracuda regurgitates a few sound bites to fuel the foolish. Maybe she reads them from ya know...all the books and media she has had in front of her for all these years. I guess she forgot this one:
3/19/2008 1:40:08 PM
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain is using the idea of global togetherness to promote “a cap-and-trade system” to battle climate change. He said “Americans and Europeans need to get serious about substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years or we will hand over a much-diminished world to our grandchildren.”
What a joke she is!!!!!
Posted by: bill r. | July 14, 2009 7:56 AM
So Palin abandons the citizens of Alaska and claims she's out of politics "for good"... and then jumps right back in with more hateful criticism of our president. What a moron...
http://www.political-buzz.com/
Posted by: matt | July 14, 2009 8:47 AM
Unlike the Dems. in the House it sounds like Sarah has read some of the actual "tax and cap" boondoggle that the House narrowly passed. Her points are right on! We did not hear any foreign leaders speak out in supporting Obama's massive, economic killing energy plan when he was on his latest world tour. They in fact see it as a great opportunity to gain economically as our Democract Congress along with the Obama WH seek to destroy American industry and raise the cost of energy for the average folks into oblivion, all based on questionable science and the fantasy of "green energy" sources that have yet to be even be reliable on a moderate scale. Just wait until you see all the grand "green" Obamamobiles you are forced to buy from Gov't. Motors. At least Sarah is speaking out, as the MSM is more interest in the latest Democract diversion with a disingenuous fight with the CIA and Nancy's attempt to cover her lies. Case in point; have we seen any posts in the Swamp (or the lefty MSM) about what is actually in the House "cap and tax" bill? Or how about how much Obama's own GE/ NBC/MSNBC cabal will benefit from this legislation (and you complained about Haliburton)! Enough said, cause they have not.
Posted by: bubba Porter | July 14, 2009 8:49 AM
Palin never says how or why all these bad things will happen; she just predicts doom and gloom like a soapbox preacher. I wonder if she's even read the bill yet...
Posted by: irene | July 14, 2009 9:06 AM
Why do I get the feeling Palin reads the Swamp? Dear Abby, though your here to stay (unfortunately), you might want to reconsider the whole "God created" cuz A/ you can't take the written word back and B/ God won't be creating anymore after it's all gone.
Posted by: there goes Africa... | July 14, 2009 9:24 AM
Sarah Palin will be able to did more faults with the Short Obama Regime that Obama was able to dig from Bush's eight years.
Posted by: Inky | July 14, 2009 10:07 AM
Who cares what all talk Palin says? She couldn't handle actually governing, so why would anyone listen to her views on policy and government? She had a position that allowed her to actually implement her views. It was too hard for her, too much for her to handle, so she quit. H3er actions, or lack of action, speak far louder than her words.
Posted by: No quitters | July 14, 2009 10:38 AM
Well Palin may love to hate the media, but the affection is mutual, though I still believe Mark has "a thing" for the soon-to-be ex Alaska governor.
But, once again, Palin is right and Silva is wrong. What new? This "cap and trade, er tax" thing is bad for the nation, bad for the economy, and, frankly, just plain bad. It will do nothing for the environment, but it will send more jobs overseas, especially the manufacturing kind, tax ALL Americans, and send unemployment to new heights. Hmmm, under similar policies, Spain's unemployme nt is over 18 percent. Is that what we want in this country?
What the Left does desire environmentally is that the economy be in shambles. They want high unemployment and they want jobs to leave this country. Fewer people working means fewer people in cars, fewer people at work burning up energy and fewer things actually being made in this country. If people can't afford to travel that also means people won't go on vacations, which the Left believes hurts the environment. All the while the media and Mark Silva types think their jobs will be safe working for the state-run media, enabling them to eat boxes and boxes of froot loops. Froot loops makes it easier to dish out the BS to the masses.
Posted by: John D | July 14, 2009 11:01 AM
Shorter Palin: Who care about pollution? Who cares about conservation? Drill! Mine! Pollute! Sacrifice our planet for short term fcorporate gain!
Posted by: Translator | July 14, 2009 1:25 PM
The latest CBS News poll has Obama down 6% from last month. In large part because what even the Obama-loving Time Magazine has recognized: the so-called stimulus is a flop.
Posted by: Bruce | July 14, 2009 1:30 PM
Does Sarah love pollution? You betcha!
Posted by: Flo | July 14, 2009 1:33 PM
Isn't the "higher calling",that she is abandoning her elected office to pursue, to become a member of the "chattering class"?
Posted by: Liz | July 14, 2009 2:21 PM
What Sarah Palin understands about energy would fit in a can of 3-in-1 oil and still leave room to fix a whole lot of squeaks.
And yet, Republicans hold up Palin as an "expert." Why? Well, partly it's just the natural tendency of the GOP to replace "has worked hard to learn something" with "repeats the party line adequately." In Republican terms, experience, knowledge, and hard work have no role in expertise.
The purpose of cap and trade is to restrict the emissions created when fossil fuels are burned. If the bill is passed, we will slow our consumption of fossil fuels from all sources, foreign and domestic. There's nothing, absolutely nothing, in Waxman-Markey that would (or could) cause more of our energy to be produced elsewhere. It's a contention so absolutely nonsensical as to defy any attempt at untangling the pseudo-logic.
What will cause us to import more oil? Doing nothing. And nothing is exactly what the Republicans have proposed.
Year after year, decade after decade, the Republican "do nothing" plan has placed more and more control of our energy production in the hands other nations. Now they say doing more of the same will reverse this trend. Well, it's not the first time we've heard that kind of 'logic' from the right.
Sarah Palin's attack on Waxman-Markey is as laughable as anything else she's said. Still, given enough time, she might learn a little about the area. Given the paucity of knowledge on the right, she might really become the GOP's most valuable player in the area of energy. But long before she gets to that point, America's Point Gaurd is sure to pass the ball, quit, and walk off to find her ego-stroking somewhere else. After all, that's her only real area of expertise.
Posted by: Hulk SMASH! | July 14, 2009 3:18 PM
This is the first time I've seen in writing the sentiment that I've always had for Republicans and their supporters but have not been able to aptly explain.
This sentiment that it's just a contest to be won at all costs is the problem with the GOP as a rule, and other politicians in general. It explains how they can lie, cheat, and steal with a straight face because nothing matters but the final score.
If you're waiting for Palin to accurately repeat back any part of this editorial supposedly written by her, you're wasting your time. The internal structure is so clearly at odds with her style of writing it's laughable. There is no way she wrote this. A plagiarized masters thesis turned in as an original book report by third-grader would be no more obvious than this thing.
Clearly Not. Her. Work.
And Sarah? Do you know what grade is given to plagiarized papers? FAIL!
Posted by: LoveBuzz | July 14, 2009 3:34 PM
The very first thing that came into my mind upon finishing this article (and Palin's) was "is this really written by the lady that people are calling a flake and uninformed?" I would grade it a solid b+/a-
Posted by: A Once and Future Skeptic | July 14, 2009 4:02 PM
Palin's ghost written column contains the standard Republican talking points. They are deceptions and lies, but after they are repeated often enough in Exxon ads and by Republicans, the ignorant American public believes them.
Don't underestimate the power of Republican lies, repeated.
Palin totally ignores global warming.
She totally ignores jobs created by wind power and renewable energy.
But that's standard Republican fare.
Posted by: Ming the Merciless | July 14, 2009 4:14 PM
Poor Sarah - she can't remember back to last fall, when she and McCain were for cap-and-tax:
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-guess-she-had-her-fingers-crossed.html
Or perhaps she was just fibbing to make McCain happy.
Posted by: Tracy | July 14, 2009 5:32 PM
I wish Sarah would put more emphasis on the hundreds of thousands of high pay jobs (for U.S. citizens) that domestic oil production would create. I'd like to here her pose the question to the democrats and radical environmental whacko's: "why are you blocking these high paying jobs for U.S. workers at a time when we desperately need them?" DD
Posted by: Darvin Dowdy | July 14, 2009 5:45 PM
McCain introduced Palin as "one of America's greatest energy experts," CNBC's Maria Bartiromo said "I think the biggest value Palin brings to the ticket is her expertise in energy," and Haley Barbour called Palin a "bonafide energy expert." Palin's petro-knowledge has become a given on the right.
What's the source of this deep knowledge? It doesn't come from Palin's multi-school odyssey from which she eventually earned a BS in communications after five years and four different colleges. It doesn't come from her experience rattling off scores as a sportscaster. It doesn't come from overseeing ice rink construction in Wasilla. Nope, her energy expertise comes from being appointed to an oil and gas commission...a job she quit after less than a year!
That's it. That's freakin' it!!!
There are people who have worked in this field for decades. People who have spent their lives studying the complex issues of energy production and utilization. People who experimented, investigated, sacrificed, and sweated to make discoveries about energy. There are actually people who didn't become "experts" by being handed a $122K / year appointment in an area they knew nothing about, spend a few months talking about their colleagues to the press, then quit when that press started to ask a few questions.
What Palin understands about energy would fit in a can of 3-in-1 oil and still leave room to fix a whole lot of squeaks.
Posted by: useless | July 14, 2009 5:57 PM
Palin is so arrogantly obtuse that it’s impossible to feel sorry for her, which I certainly would for 99.9% of the planet burdened with the emptiness of her head. Look at this, the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip, but Sarah is simply oblivious that by becoming a quitter to a real job and showing up in the Post with hack English she has, of course, become a shining lead member of the "chattering class" she then takes a steaming dump upon. Empathy and compassion are impossible in such circumstances.
The rest of the piece is just a clumsy ghost written shill for the big oil companies and how bad bad bad Obama is for cap and trade, which Sarah doesn’t understand and doesn’t want to; the reality of completely obviating carbon emissions doesn’t even occur to her, let alone the horrible idea of using less. Palin has no education (a desperate hash-up from four schools) and no idea what she’s talking about, I saw her laughable coal carbon atom "fungible" ability quotes of the campaign, if it doesn’t directly put revenue into oil company accounts she can be counted on to be absolutely useless and very dangerous.
Posted by: The Quitta from Wasilla | July 14, 2009 6:46 PM
Sure sign that someone is a loser is when they constantly blame the media for their problems.
Posted by: mort | July 14, 2009 6:48 PM
No matter what kind of amusing dunce Palin is, careening from one political failure to the next, the absolutely fanatical, obdurately dense Republican base lines up right behind her with a snap-to-it unthinking loyalty and total obedience I find frightening. Even with all the horror and destruction of Bush still in the present and his clone in Palin wielding a singular clumsy pen of obtuse oil interests, what's left of the Republican base is still willing to follow her off a cliff.
Unfreakingbelievable!
Posted by: Letterman ROCKS! | July 14, 2009 7:16 PM
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Posted by: Maura | July 14, 2009 7:33 PM
Palin the energy wizard is lecturing Obama, what a joke. There is an interesting related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
Posted by: carly | July 14, 2009 9:11 PM
What I've been noticing lately is how much Sarah Palin really hits the nerves of the left. Among the news articles here at the Swamp Sarah Palin surely garners a large number of comments, if not the largest! How do you like that Swamp? .... you're getting a lot of business because of her. Hello?!! 'She's not leaving! You all can demonize this woman all you want. Make up lies. Call her all sort of names. Include her babies, too. (you sure are mean people to even not spare the innocent!) The more you hit her, the more she'll rise up. Bad news Dems. --- She's HERE TO STAY!!! Let me put it this way; the Lady knows what she's doing! Do not underestimate the power of some individuals who have come from unsuspected places such as the small town of Wasilla, Alaska. The more you criticize her the more she'll pull in followers --- it works all the time. Specially, when "you (extreme left)" can't hold your tongues and calls her all sorts of ugly things. Tsk. tsk. Now, you have a reason to be worried. A lot of things can happen between now and 2012.
Posted by: eva | July 14, 2009 10:45 PM
Interesting that Ms. Palin who couldn't govern, who despises MSM, who takes pride in her aversion to reading should pen something in WaPo and we spend our time debating its merits. Irony.
Posted by: evenu | July 14, 2009 10:50 PM
Nearly 9 out of 10 of the surface temperature monitoring stations in the US do not even meet the National Weather Services' requirement that they be located 100' or more from an artificial heating or radiating source. This means 9 out of 10 are delivering readouts which are artificially high.
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/surfacestationsreport_spring09.pdf
"You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel. Global Warming, er, Climate Change is wealth redistribution on a global scale. Obamabots continue to believe that "only those making $250K or more annually will be paying higher taxes." Keep telling yourselves that.
Posted by: ThepartyofOWE | July 14, 2009 11:16 PM
Funny how all you liberals are reading Sarah Palin. I guess she's doing a great job of getting out the message.
Why do you want to pay more for energy? Don't you realize that wind mills aren't going to supple enough power to light Al Gore's mansion? Let alone heat the whale sized pool. We will send more money to Saudi Arabia. Didn't Obama goe there earlier this year? Yes, he went there and had a sudden urge to tie his shoes in from of the Saudi King. Maybe he should get some slip ons.
And Mark, nobody reads newspapers anymore, ask your circulation department. Since you are online, you should know that.
Posted by: Gary | July 15, 2009 3:33 AM
eva.......In November, 71% of the republican party felt Palin would be an affective leader. As of yesterday, her number in her own party has dropped to 33%. It seems you have a reason to be worried.
Posted by: bill r. | July 15, 2009 7:37 AM
OH NO! Exxon Mobil is buying up bio fuels (pond scum algae to fuel) in order to shut it down, just like they did the Pogue 200 mpg carburetor in '36. BIGOIL is giving us the shaft again! Liberals must shut down BIGOIL before it's too late.
www.shouldwestillimposeexcessprofitstaxonbig3.com
Posted by: ThepartyofOWE | July 15, 2009 7:46 AM
Palin has less credibility than boy George Bush. Folks find her easy on the eyes but when she opens her mouth...there's nothing there. She makes absolutely no sense. She has done the people of Alaska a great disservice by unexpectedly and abruptly resigning as governor and not even providing a really good honest reason. Then there's her treasonous husband and the anti American Alaskan Independence Party.
Posted by: Doug R. | July 15, 2009 10:15 AM
I find these musings about Sarah Palin's intellect and future aspirations to be very interesting. If she has "little intelligence, political ability and knowledge of the facts", why is she all over both liberal and conservative news outlets? She should be a non-issue, especially with people who would never vote for her should she decide to run for national office. For someone who has such "little skill", she sure has caused quite a stir. In the words of William Shakespeare: "Me thinks thou dost protest too much!"
To its detriment, the liberal media is stubbornly blind to a conservative, non-partisan ground swell of angst steadily growing across this country against the policies of the current presidential administration. This grassroots movement is based on the simple constitutional fact that it's the PEOPLE who rule in a democracy, not the Executive Branch and its current acquiescent mouthpiece, the media.
I look forward to see what Sarah Palin might do in the future when she is no longer a "public servant", but a private citizen and has some legal leverage to thwart the multitude of attacks that come her way. My common sense tells me that we haven't seen anything yet!
Posted by: Shahoon | July 15, 2009 10:47 AM
"We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil."
Ever consider the possibility that God put those things in the ground...TO STAY IN THE GROUND? Not for us to exploit those "resources"?
Didn't think so!! God put all the energy we need in the air!! Wind, solar, electricty. These are all more practical, cleaner and cheaper than any of Sarah's suggestions.
Posted by: syj | July 15, 2009 12:35 PM
Does anyone actually believe Palin wrote the Oped piece?
It was more likely someone from the RNC, a hired ghost writer, or maybe even Tina Fey.
She should stick to what she knows--which is....uh well...
Posted by: gibster | July 15, 2009 3:13 PM
"We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil."
God put even more oil under Saudi Arabia. Does that mean God, or Allah, liked the Saudis better? Maybe God put the oil there for the benefit of the native people who lived there originally, not Exxon/Mobil.
Posted by: The Theology of Oil | July 15, 2009 3:21 PM
Good for Sarah. She is absolutely right in her comments.
Fact: For the past 10 years, our temperatures have FALLEN yet CO2 has RISEN. How can that happen if CO2 has been accused of global warming? Oh, I know how to fix this -problem: we'll now call it "climate change." See, problem still exists. Now we can justify the tax and spending.
There has always been climate change. Thank goodness you live in 2009 and not in 2009 BC. If you have complaints, take it up with God. Otherwise, stop this insanity.
Don't for a minute think that we can ignore the other issue and that is we need to conserve our environment by practicing good ecology standards. That does not prevent drilling in the parks - just look at how the modern day drilling is done. Of course we can do what some want and that is to return to a time when we didn't have cars. Can you imagine traffic jams on the highways with horses and buggies? How foolish can we be?
Posted by: Linda Mae | July 15, 2009 3:30 PM
"That does not prevent drilling in the parks - just look at how the modern day drilling is done."
Ansolutely! Drill rigs are beautiful things! We need to dress up thw parks with them. I think three or four rigs right next to Old Faithful would do wonders for the place. Picture a whole row along the rim of the Grand Canyon! Wouldn't that be magnificent? Let's not forget the natural beauty of the roads we'd cut through the forest to get to the rigs, the smell of diesel exhaust, the pleasing thunk as a deer gets run over by a maintnence truck. Isn't that really what the national parks are supposed to be about? Isn't oil company profits what we created the parks to preserve?
Posted by: Oil CEO | July 15, 2009 5:55 PM
Posted by: Linda Mae | July 15, 2009 3:30 PM
Sure, what a terrible time it was when there WAS NOT POLLUTION BLOWN INTO THE AIR. Cars are a fact, and we need them. But people like Sarah Palin, who are in the back pockets of the oil companies, have done everything they can to suppress electric and clean car technology.
2009BC? She doesn't even believe there was such a date. Do you really want someone who believes dinosaurs were a myth?
Posted by: syj | July 15, 2009 6:30 PM
Linda Mae, your research is a farce. Try again.
Posted by: mort | July 15, 2009 8:35 PM
Funny how all you liberals are reading Sarah Palin. I guess she's doing a great job of getting out the message.
Why do you want to pay more for energy? Don't you realize that wind mills aren't going to supple enough power to light Al Gore's mansion? Let alone heat the whale sized pool. We will send more money to Saudi Arabia. Didn't Obama goe there earlier this year? Yes, he went there and had a sudden urge to tie his shoes in from of the Saudi King. Maybe he should get some slip ons.
And Mark, nobody reads newspapers anymore, ask your circulation department. Since you are online, you should know that.
Posted by: Gary | July 15, 2009 11:41 PM
Sy, you just make stuff up and post it? Palin doesn't think there was a 2009BC? Can you show me where she said that? And there aren't any plans to put oil rigs in parks. Geez. Here's some environmental myths: (And I bet you have believed them all) We are going to be completely out of oil by 1976, the earth is cooling. overpopulation will cause worldwide starvation by 1984. Computers will rule the world by 1984. The year 2000 computer predicted meltdown. The US can't handle a population over 280 million and THAT is from Obama's science czar; our pop. is over 320 million.
More MYTHS:
Forests are in rapid decline
Air quality is getting worse
Myth 3: The Kyoto Protocol will successfully reduce levels of CO2
in the atmosphere.
Fact: Even if the Kyoto Protocol was ratified and
implemented, CO2 would continue to increase.
Myth 8: Oil can easily be replaced by renewable energy.
Fact: Oil is absolutely essential to all aspects of the
American economy.
Oil and the price of oil is included in just about everything in the economy. We aren't going to do diddly about our use of oil by using electric cars. Don't you KNOW that it takes 8 hours to charge an electric car and the cost equals about $4.00 per gal of gasoline. AND you have to generate that power! Don't tell me we can use solar and wind power, cause you don't know what you are talking about. It takes thousands of wind turbines to generate any real amount of power. And they what do you do when the wind doesn't blow...HMMMMMMM???? sit there and wait for days without electricity?????
Posted by: Gary | July 16, 2009 12:19 AM
Mort:
So you say. However, I am right no matter how much you may want to disbelieve the facts. I don't have an agenda except to point out the insanity over the global warming fiasco. What's yours?
Simple name calling is so silly.
Posted by: Linda Mae | July 16, 2009 1:58 AM
Yes, those days When THERE WERE NO POWER PLANTS, no cars, no electricity were pretty tough for most of the population of earth.
Do I really need to list the health advantages of having refrigerators that allow the keeping of fresh and frozen foods????
The life span of people before the industrial revolution was 35 years. And liberals want to go backwards. So, what you really will be doing by pursuing this backwards energy policy is lowering living standards for those that can't afford energy, and that translates to early death.
Yeah, it does. Every time there is a heat wave, people that can't afford AC die from heat stroke, etc. Then there is the winter...BRILLIANT PLAN.
Posted by: Gary | July 16, 2009 3:53 AM
This is hysterical-- Ok Liberal Dog sit !! Laydown !! heel !! Bark !! .
Libs memind me of the theory of Pavlov's Law--- The mere mention of the name Palin and they are immediately thrown into a fit of barking frenzy, until they are hoarse and foaming at the mouth.
I am laughing my ass off at all the typical liberal talking points. They flock to any article on Palin and ready , Set ! Spew! I have never seen anything like it.
But the one that cracked me up the most in this post was " Maybe God made these resources to stay in the Ground". Ok folks this is the mentality we are dealing with. As opposed to what genius? Buying the same resourses from a foreign source at an inflated price ???
L-M-A-O !
I have noticed that Palin can say " clean coal development" a 100 times and Libs are so friggen mental-- all they can say its :
Palin Quit...She did not write the article... She is stupid,,,Who does she think she is ? She is no expert! Palin Lied ! Tina Fey died !
For someone that liberals consider of such lower intelligence -- I think you protest too much....
I do not really care what avenue Palin chooses, I hope she stays around you can not BUY this kind of entertainment.
Posted by: Denise | July 16, 2009 4:28 AM
Linda Mae.....love the name. You are correct! Smog; bad air quality days; UV Indexes; China "cleaning their air" for the Olympic games; etc. etc. is all a figment of the evil media machine. I get it now. I also know the concept of global dimming is far too advanced for your mind to grasp.
Posted by: Xcellentform | July 16, 2009 7:04 AM
I love reading all those ridiculous comments about Palin those brain-dead Democrats make that they pass on from the DNC. It makes me realize the statement attributed to PT Barnum was right. There really is a sucker born every minute.
Posted by: Robert | July 16, 2009 11:20 AM
Yes, those days When THERE WERE NO POWER PLANTS, no cars, no electricity were pretty tough for most of the population of earth.
Posted by: Gary | July 16, 2009 3:53 AM
That 's OK Gary. I understand how the republican mind can only see a cleaner enviroment by looking "backwards". That's why the "future" should be left to those with vision.
Posted by: bill r. | July 16, 2009 12:28 PM
I believe the scientific evidence, Linda Mae (I didn't call you any names by the way) that global warming exists, some of it is manmade and we should do better; you deny it and make cracks about horse and buggies. As for Denise, I'd suggest growing up and putting away the "LMAO" kids stuff. Looks like one of Sarah's tweets.
Posted by: mort | July 16, 2009 2:09 PM
That 's OK Gary. I understand how the republican mind can only see a cleaner enviroment by looking "backwards". That's why the "future" should be left to those with vision.
Posted by: bill r. | July 16, 2009 12:28 PM
LOL! "Vision," democrats blindly follow their leaders like lemmings. The future should be left to everyone, not just a few elitists who think that they "know" what's best for everybody else. Meanwhile they practice hypocrisy like Al Gore; fly in private jets and cause "global warming" mainly by spewing hot air.
Posted by: Gary | July 16, 2009 3:07 PM
That 's OK Gary. I understand how the republican mind can only see a cleaner enviroment by looking "backwards". That's why the "future" should be left to those with vision.
Posted by: bill r. | July 16, 2009 12:28 PM
LOL! "Vision," democrats blindly follow their leaders like lemmings. The future should be left to everyone, not just a few elitists who think that they "know" what's best for everybody else. Meanwhile they practice hypocrisy like Al Gore; fly in private jets and cause "global warming" mainly by spewing hot air.
Posted by: Gary | July 16, 2009 5:22 PM
Gary-
What is the GOP vision these days?? What are their plans for health care and education?? Oh that's right...they have none. Hypocrisy...look it up in Websters and keep listening to drug/ viagra addict Limp-baugh. You have a great future.
Posted by: Doug R. | July 17, 2009 8:24 AM
When she was running and for this program, she called it Cap and Trade. Now she calls it Cap and Tax. What a hypocrite. She'd probably deny it even if she were watching the video. Pathetic.
Posted by: Nancy | July 17, 2009 12:32 PM
When she was running and for this program, she called it Cap and Trade. Now she calls it Cap and Tax. What a hypocrite. She'd probably deny it even if she were watching the video. Pathetic.
Posted by: Nancy | July 17, 2009 12:34 PM