ft.com - 6/29/2009
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Bromley illustrations As he promised last year, Barack Obama has brought climate change and healthcare reform to the centre of the nation’s attention. As well as evangelising, he is pressing Congress to act. Last week the House of Representatives passed the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill to ...
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HOUSE Key Vote Alert - Climate Change
clubforgrowth.org 6/23/2009 — KEY VOTE ALERT
"NO" ON WAXMAN-MARKEY
CAP-AND-TRADE BILL (HR 2454)
The Club for Growth urges all House members to vote "NO" on the Waxman-Markey bill that would impose a cap-and-trade scheme in order to effect climate change. The bill is expected to be considered as early as this week. ...
What part of "bankrupt" don't you get?
hf-implode.com 6/29/2009 — "..., when someone says to you; "I am going to penalize your main industry with economic caps, bankrupt anyone who attempts to use your product and give the money to your competition" it should be a no-brainer. As with the cap-and-trade bill, Rahall and Mollohan delayed in supporting an audit of ...
Climate Vote Shows Why I Am Still a Man Without a Party
capitalgainsandgames.com 6/29/2009 — I had three reactions to yesterday's cap-and-trade vote, two of which came from The New York Times article that I read this morning and one of which came from Stan's very smart post . Here they are:
From the article, "Only eight Republicans ...
How big a tax? —
SCSUScholars
Last night Janet posted at True North about the cost of cap-and-trade legislation and her call to Colin Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat from a declining region of farms, lakes and empty nests. Heritage has posted a calculation of the costs of the Waxman-Markey bill by congressional district . ...
Silly relief for this wonk —
Angry Bear
rdan I have been chasing information on the budget deficits and potential impacts, the US trade deficit, and the cap and trade arguments linked to HR 2454 Waxman-Markey bill of hundreds of pages. Mostly it was figuring out how assumptions in data and baselines (such as the CBO reports) made a ...
Cap ‘n Trade: The Ultimate Pork-Fest —
Cato @ Liberty
Some naive people might have been convinced that the U.S. House voted to wreck the American economy by endorsing cap and trade because it was the only way to save the world. But even many environmentalists had given up on the bill approved last Friday. It is truly a monstrosity: it would ...
A Missed Opportunity —
Greg Mankiw's Blog
From Donald Marron : On Friday, the House of Representatives passed its climate change bill by a slim margin. The bill’s key feature is a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases. That system would set national emission limits and would require affected emitters to own permits (called ...
Treason or Murder —
Ideas
Paul Krugman, in one of his more inflamatory statements, claimed that congressmen who voted against cap and trade were guilty of "planetary treason." The bill contains substantial support for biofuels, including a five year moratorium on letting the EPA decide whether, on net, producing ethanol ...
Condoleezza Rice on Cap and Trade: It’s Easily Abused —
Earth2Tech
It’s not a real shocker that former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, now a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, isn’t a big fan of the current energy bill that passed the House on Friday . At the Silicon Valley Energy Summit at Stanford University, where Rice is also a ...
Voting on bills without reading them —
Overlawyered
The practice seems to have been taken to an extreme in Congress with the pending “cap and trade” bill. [ David Freddoso, D.C. Examiner ]
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Finally time to really short oil —
The HardHead Fund
Last Friday was the first time in a while that oil and the dollar has been down on the same day. Could this be the time to short oil? Just before the dollar dump begins? But here is maybe a good play - oil tankers - with the new Waxman-Markey climate bill. NAT - is my pick at 32.33 with 11% ...
Over-Under —
Coyote Blog
As I wrote before , Waxman-Markey puts most of the onus for CO2 reduction on refiners and transportation fuels, so that is the area we will see the most price increase if the bill passes.
So I ask you, after putting this huge effective tax on refiners, which will also in some cases force ...
So Waxman-Markey is Still Alive —
Coyote Blog
Via the AZ Republic:
House Democrats narrowly won a key test vote Friday on sweeping legislation designed to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Republicans said the bill included the largest tax increase in American history.
The vote was 217-205 to advance ...
15 Reasons to Oppose Climate Bill —
Club for Growth
Need a reason to oppose the Waxman-Markey "cap and tax" bill, which will be voted on in the House later this afternoon? Here are 15 reasons, provided by the good folks at the RSC . Democrats should find several of these reasons hard to ignore.
National Energy Tax: This is a tax that will ...
Friday's Daily News - Energy Tax Edition —
Club for Growth
The House is set to vote on a big, ugly, anti-growth energy tax bill later today. I'll be blogging (and tweeting ) about it throughout the day.
THE DAILY NEWS
The Climate Change Climate Change - Kimberley Strassel, WSJ
Waxman-Markey: Man-Made Disaster - IBD Editorial
Pelosi Buys Off ...
Climate Bill Payoffs —
Coyote Blog
I am again hearing rumblings that the climate bill may pass the House. If so, it will be interesting to see what last minute bribes were added to make this happen. The most recent bribe we know about is the commitment to pay farmers not to grow crops with the weak window dressing that this is ...
Email to Club Members —
Club for Growth
We sent an email to Club members this afternoon asking them to call their representative and urge him or her to vote NO on the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill, which is expected to be on the House floor tomorrow.
In response, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite's office called and told me that she is ...
Thursday's Daily News —
Club for Growth
THE DAILY NEWS
The Cap and Tax Fiction - Wall Street Journal Editorial
Climate Change Bill All Pain, No Gain - OC Register Editorial
Climate Bill Is A Terrible Deal for Taxpayers - National Review Editorial
Cap-and-Trade = Economy Killer - Myron Ebell, New York Post
For Moderates, ...
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