--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchy...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, WillyTex <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > Dick Mays wrote:
> > > Environmental bill up in House now.
> > >
> > "This idea of climate change and the Cap
> > and Trade business is all based on a lie,
> > just like the Patriot Acts, DHS, etc, etc,
> > were based on the 9-11 lies. What our
> > leaders, energy producers and whoever
> > else that will get rich on these new
> > laws have not been telling us is that
> > they have been keeping some important
> > energy technology suppressed and hidden
> > from the general public for at least
> > the last 100 years..."
> >
> > Read other Prison Planet comments:
> >
> > 'US climate change bill passes key hurdle'
> > By Philip Sherwell
> > London Telegraph, Friday, May 22, 2009
> > http://tinyurl.com/ph5jbb
> >
>
> The folks at Prison Planet are whack job conspiracy nuts. Let's put a little
> less paranoia and a little more sanity into the discussion:
>
> "The cap-and-trade legislation supported by the Obama administration is a
> stealth strategy for a massive long-term tax increase. It is a large tax on
> all American households, and the tax burden rises in future years without any
> need for further legislation. It will evolve into an enormous new source of
> tax revenue for the government.
>
> "A cap-and-trade system is supposed to reduce carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions
> by raising the price of CO2-intensive goods and services like gasoline,
> electricity and a wide range of industrial products. This, in theory, will
> induce consumers to shift their spending to services and products that
> involve lower levels of CO2 emissions. It achieves these price increases by
> requiring firms that create CO2 in their production process, or sell goods
> like gasoline that create CO2 when used, to have a permit per ton of CO2
> emission."
>
> http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/06/25/cap-and-tax.aspxIf
>
>
> Would I rather pay income tax or happily watching my tax dollars whirl 'round
> the bowl every time I flushed my toilet? I don't know, but definitely not
> both. What say you?
>
> raunchydog
>
snip,
CO2 is used in some industrial applications and, is the "fizz" in the soft
drinks amongst other things so increasing its cost will end up on us.
