Climate Change Bill Opponents Correct
The IntelligencerAt about the same time U.S. representatives were joining others from big energy-consuming countries in worrying aloud about high oil prices, liberal U.S. senators were warning that they will be back next year with a climate change bill. It is a measure that both candidates for president, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, support.
It is little wonder that members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries think their customers, including Americans, have only ourselves to blame for high fuel prices.
On Sunday, representatives of the Group of Eight industrialized nations met in Tokyo. The organization includes the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and Russia. They were joined by officials from China, India and South Korea for a discussion about rising oil prices.
Delegates to the meeting agreed that unless something is done soon to bring oil prices under control, a global recession — perhaps worse — could occur. They asked that OPEC countries increase oil production to bring down prices, but that is unlikely to happen soon.
As Group of Eight members were gathering, conservatives in the Senate blocked a draconian climate change bill, after warning that it would increase energy prices and hurt the U.S. economy badly.
But the measure’s liberal proponents said they will bring the very same bill up again next year. They simply don’t care that it would add to the burdens high oil prices already have placed upon most Americans. Thank heaven that at least the conservatives who blocked the bill have their constituents’ best interests at heart.
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Georgetwin
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06-11-08 11:09 AM
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BBekket, ask The Enviro-Nazis if their DOPE-SMOKING contributes to Global Warming. HOW IRONIC, Dopes Smoking Dope!
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bekbekket
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06-11-08 10:17 AM
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But you know what's gonna' happen, don't you? In twenty years, when everything is still just fine, the environnentalists will all claim... "See, we fixed it, yea for us!!!"
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Georgetwin
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06-11-08 10:03 AM
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RDish & BBekket, Have you ever seen a Polar Bear at the zoo? It is all the zookeepers can do to get those rascals OUT OF THE WATER. They are PROLIFIC swimmers. THEY HAVE TO BE, there is NO FOOD on The Polar Ice Cap. It is in the water and it takes LOTS of food to feed a polar bear.
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bekbekket
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06-11-08 6:03 AM
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Red Dish and G-twin- That's another one... the polar bear! They're just fine. Endangered my a-double-s!
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RedDish
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06-10-08 7:48 PM
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Georgetwin---It'd be too hard for them to hear it over the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the polar bear's ice melting....
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Georgetwin
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06-10-08 10:02 AM
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RDish, PREACH IT TO THE CHEAP SEATS!
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RedDish
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06-09-08 6:24 PM
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Man Made Global Warming is a myth. Period.
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topsie
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06-09-08 1:46 PM
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put them on the ice- since it is melting they will be there to servive and start all over.
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Georgetwin
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06-09-08 1:14 PM
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KTBass, maybe so, but The Mating Habits of Enviro-Nazis will also be altered.
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Georgetwin
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06-09-08 10:07 AM
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I say cut out The Middleman and create energy by BURNING ENVIRONMENTALISTS!
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Lorenzo
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06-09-08 9:19 AM
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Interesting how a lede can slant. The AP (June 6) reported that, “Republicans Stall Climate Change Bill. GOP Senate Filibuster Puts Greenhouse Gas Bill In Jeopardy.” Is there nothing left to do but filibuster anything new? Filibustering may just be slow suicide.
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UNCOMMONSENSE
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06-09-08 9:11 AM
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I propose a new bill. Similar sounding to the SUPERfund project this would be named the STUPIDfund project. ALL environmentalists shall be charged 25% more for everything they buy for their stupidity! This will help pay for the massive damage to the US economy they have caused! And keep the STUPIDfund project well funded into the 22nd century!
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bekbekket
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06-09-08 5:45 AM
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I wonder if these senators who sponsored this bill would NOW support Kyoto. If memory serves me correctly,none of our senators supported it before. And I wonder if the conservatives who blocked this bill will be labeled mean, nasty and against the environment. Uh... too late... guess that happened already. Lastly,to this reader, if something crazy doesn't happen, it seems like it's merely a matter of time before this bill is voted on, and passed.
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