Conversion Over Coffee - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

In a compressed span of mere minutes — interrupted by his workers on various matters — I observed each phase from denial through to acceptance. This busy man soon shook his head, "It's crazy."

Maybe you can take the San Francisco out of the man who takes himself out of San Francisco.

This anecdote is illustrative of why the alarmists say that — while we can spare no expense and worry about no cost in pursuit of their agenda — there is just one thing they say we cannot afford: debate, airing the case against them.

NC Media Watch: Got any carbon credit coupons to spare?

As Nevada County struggles to recover our local economy and focus on jump starting our tourism, gasoline rationing could kill the program before it even gets off the ground. I remember during WWII when the neighbors got together to see if they had enough rationing coupons to buy sugar, so they could make blackberry jam. Mother nature has provided the blackberries, but the government was controlling the sugar. No sugar, no jam!

Families considering a drive to Nevada City may have to pool their carbon credit coupons. Not enough gas rationing coupons, no fun trip, no economic recovery.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Opinion on Cap and Trade in Formiche

But as Thomas Henry Huxley once observed, our knowledge is littered with beautiful theories killed by inconvenient facts, and we should add to that list the notion of the emissions-reducing effectiveness of putting a price on carbon. This uncomfortable reality stems from the very fact that putting a price on carbon causes economic pain and discomfort to energy consumers, who also happen to be citizens and often, also voters. Politicians who want to continue in their jobs spend every waking hour trying to avoid economic discomfort or pain among their constituents, much less cause it intentionally. To think that politicians are going to willingly impose discomfort or pain on their constituents is fanciful at best.