Tulsa World: Inhofe calls expected Obama move 'environmental thuggery'

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe on Monday described as "environmental thuggery" an expected announcement by President Obama to move toward allowing California and other states to regulate their own tailpipe emissions for vehicles.

The Oklahoma Republican warned such a "patchwork" approach would cost jobs in the beleaguered auto industry.

Waiting for Algore - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Benny Peiser notes that elsewhere Reuters asserts a similar naïveté, “If widely agreed the EU plan could encourage the world’s top carbon emitter, China, to agree to internationally binding climate measures” [mirroring FRC chairman John Kerry’s perspective as reported in today’s E&E Daily, and surely Gore's thesis on Wednesday].

“Could.” That is, if I hit myself on the head with this frying pan it could cause the vast majority of the world rejecting the idea to reconsider and start banging their own noggins, too. I’m curious, but how self-centered (or worse) must we be to believe that 150+ nations of, how do we say, developing peoples, who have articulated their judgment that it is not in their interests to do something are really just making excuses for the embarassing truth that they are playing follow-the-leader, the leader being the great us?