Monday, January 05, 2009

Pakistan: Diesel shortage hits public transport
Diesel shortage has adversely affected public transportation services, with a significant reduction in service duration at night, provided by the local operators as the provincial government fails to ensure fuel supply to these operators.

As long queues of vehicles at different filling stations in the city tell the tales of the on-going fuel crisis across the country, commuters are really feeling miserable when they have to wait for hours to get on a public transport vehicle in intense cold weather.
A Carbon Tax For Animal Emissions - More Unintended Consequences Of Carbon Policy In The Guise Of Climate Policy
This is the type of pandora’s box that Climate Science has weblogged on in the past; e.g. see

Has The IPCC Produced A Hydra?

The clear answer is that a wide range of consequences, with serious environmental, economic and social effects, are going to result as a result of the inappropriately narrow IPCC focus on carbon as the currency for a wide range of climate effects.
Whopper of the Year | cooler heads
The Heritage Foundation calculated job losses under the [idiotic Lieberman-Warner America's Climate Security Act] would exceed 500,000 before 2030, even using the most favorable assumptions. And the National Association of Manufacturers predicted that more than 4 million jobs could be lost by 2030.

Talking about the “millions” of jobs that would be created and forgetting to mention the many more millions that would be destroyed truly takes the cake.

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