Steve, I pray that you are correct. that bill is an economic disaster in the making. If it is approved by the senate I'm packing up and moving to Galt's Gulch and waiting for the looter government to implode from it's own stupidity.

This is nothing more than another hidden tax that would be administered by an un-elected, unaccountable body, the EPA. And 80% of the revenue has already been promised away to special interests. In case everyone has forgotten the lessons of the 70's oil crisis, we need to drill here, now. China and India will more than make up for any carbon savings we sacrifice for.

Besides, this is based on junk science. Back during the 70's, Paul Erlich, the "godfather" of evironmentalism, was making the case for a premature ice age induced by the particulate matter we were putting into the air. If that was true, then we have gotten precisely what we asked for by "cleaning the windows" so the sun can shine in.

I have found that our temperatures and weather patterns seem to follow the activity trends of that large fusion reactor about 93 million miles out.

So when Algore starts living in a cave wearing a grass suit and travels around in an ox cart to pontificate to us how we're despoiling the planet, I'll take him a little more seriously.

Remember that we are beset with a political class that is only interrested in control; they would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Listen carefully, they are preparing the last nail in the coffin of American freedom. If this bill passes, another trillion dollars will be issued to deal with the perceived issues. This will do nothing for the environment, and everything to crush freedom, through the taxation of inflation. Persecution and impoverishment will be more rampant.

Mad As Hell.

Fortunately this sort of nonsense is self-limiting. Ayn Rand predicted everything that is happening today in her Magnum Opus, "Atlas Shrugged."

For example, here is a real economic suicide note: http://web.archive.org/web/20010615002306/www.acorn.org/people%27s_platform.html No, not Ayn Rand- ACORN's "People's Platform."

Once the production of goods and services drops below what is necessary to sustain civilization, it's back to howling barbarism. Even a national shortage of transportation fuel would lead to starvation and food riots in the large cities in short order.

If the rest of us can protect what's important- water, food, breeding age females, and the knowledge of basic technology- we'll survive just fine. The unproductive 2/3 or so of society will either starve, or be slaughtered by their "brothers and sisters" for the cook pot.

OH, MY, GOD. (and thanks for the ACORN link)

It's not enough that the House of 'Reps' would vote for something few of them have a CLUE about, as evidenced by the ignorant comments in support of this bill. HOW can they even have a serious discussion on a Bill that is based completely on addressing fraudulant Global Warming claims, and does nothing to address the real problems of government restrictions on developing our own hydrocarbon and nuclear power industries?

If you ever wanted to know what an insane, "ANTI-Constitution" would look like, how the parasite-class of liberal feel-good-without-earning-it busy-bodies would write a plan to destroy America, here it is. The ACORN fascist manifesto.

And to think, ACORN is the Voter-Fraud group that claims credit for getting Democrats into the majority, and specifically Barack Obama into the White House - though he repeatedly lied about his ties to them!

Their massive 'community organizing' was for one of their own, of course; former trainer Obama, who helped them create the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, and helped develop the application of Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" (google it) to the liberal political process in Chicago.
So Obama is, like, the anti-Yoda - a mentor to those not 'fortunate' enough to have had direct communist mentors of their own like Barry did.

And ACORN is the group that has been awarded YOUR tax money, even in new funding to expand their reach. This is the group that signed up thousands upon thousands of fraudulant 'voters' during the last several elections.

This is the organization that will be helping to document the next Census, door to door, now taken over by Chicago slimeball Rahm Emanuel.

NOTE: It is the Census, never before controlled by a political entity but always previously by the Commerce dept, which controls the next round of "gerrymandering," which determines the 'zones' for voters to be grouped for picking a House representative, which is now for the first time to be computer-modelled and changed by ethnic group and political affiliation.

This determines statistically which political party WILL win the most seats in the House of Representatives, which has recently passed the most devastating attacks against the fundamental freedoms formerly allowing the success that built America, and which holds the purse-strings of the massive and growing Federal government medusa.

And now we get a massive and EXPENSIVE Carbon Cap-and-Tax on top of everything else?
As-if CO2 were some kind of toxin, and as-if mankind was capable of anything within a couple of orders of magnitude that would change the global climate. Really.

This is no longer a slippery-slope, this is a slime-ridden mosh pit of collectivism. I just hope we have enough sane people left that still care enough to vote...but where are they going to get the facts from which to form a valid opinion?