No way we’ll move millions to green jobs | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Keith Orchison is rightly sceptical of airy green claims that slashing emissions won’t hurt because we can just move workers from gassy jobs to green ones...

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » CBO: Free cap and trade CO2 credits won’t reduce consumer costs

Unsurprisingly, Dinan reported that only the wealthiest Americans and corporations would be better off if allowances are given away for free. Even if carbon-belching companies don’t have to purchase emission allowances, they would still reap in “windfall profits, which could be very large” from the rise in prices of goods and services that they sell. Utility companies’ pleas for free allowances are an attempt to boost their own revenues while asking middle and low income families to bear the burden of greenhouse gas clean up costs.

CQ Politics | House Republicans Vow To Fight Tax Increases, Cap-and-Trade Plan

House Republicans, stepping up their attack on President Obama’s proposed $3.6 trillion budget, offered six principles Wednesday that they say will guide them as they formulate an alternative to the president’s ambitious plans.

The principles reflect the minority’s long-held views. GOP leaders said they will oppose any tax increases, either on income or energy, and will fight a cap-and-trade program to curb carbon dioxide emissions in order to combat global warming. Instead, the Republicans reiterated their “all of the above” energy proposals that stress new domestic oil and gas production and development of alternative energy sources.

Climate Progress » Blog Archive » House GOP pledge to fight all action on climate. “Why do conservatives hate your children?”

Fundamentally, anti-science conservatives are now the cement shoes on the American people, pulling us down into the ocean hot, acidic dead zone.