In the realm of energy policy, there are a great many bad ideas and a very few good ones. The usual practice of presidential candidates is to 1) sift through all these proposals, 2) separate the wheat from the chaff, and 3) keep the chaff.
This year, the two parties are competing to show who is most eager to discard sound economics and long-term prudence in favor of appeasing aggrieved motorists. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are pandering with a proposal to punish oil companies wit ...
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Posted by: Jim Davidson
Comment: #1
Fri May 2, 2008 4:36 PM
I agreed with your comments until you had a "Better Idea". Are you aware that greenhouse gases are mostly water vapor and that carbon dioxide which is utilized mostly by the green things, which contribute even more to the greenhouse gases. Surely if you know that if there is global warming it comes from conditions from our only heating source, the Sun. A carbon tax is just another tax and will do nothing about the so called global warming. Please research the facts.
Jim Davidson
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Posted by: Evan Cowart
Comment: #2
Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:17 PM
I have an even better idea, why don't we drill for oil. Kinda thought this guy was Conservative, but sounds like this is a tree hugger left wing site.
Evan
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Posted by: colleen clopton
Comment: #3
Sun Apr 20, 2008 8:56 AM
I do not understand your statement "a carbon tax whose revenue would go to cut payroll taxes for Soc. Sec. and Medicare, rewarding work w/o raising the deficit." Please explain.
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