Windmills of the mind | spiked

As for the scientists and engineers engaged in developing new energy technologies, such a politically, indeed socially, censorious climate can only inhibit genuine technological innovation. The argument for meaningful innovation can only be won through public debate, not through blackmail and threats and the creation of outcasts. To misquote Henry Ford, the message today seems to be: you can develop any energy technology as long as it’s a wind turbine.

The consequences affect us all. In the name of the planet, to be compelled and humiliated into toeing the line has gained state approval.

Michelle Malkin : The Shut Up and Swallow Congress - Townhall.com

Welcome to the cap-and-trade crap sandwich.
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On the Senate floor Tuesday, Republicans valiantly tried to stop the cap-and-trade bullet train -- only to be met with histrionic entreaties from the likes of Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dick Durbin shrieking about floods, dinosaurs and The Children. Boxer and Durbin indignantly accused GOP senators of "fear-mongering" over the costs of radical greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Then, without missing a beat, the Democrats returned to their wild predictions of the earth fizzling up and their grandchildren perishing like the prehistoric creatures who once roamed our doomed planet.

GOP Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire and John Thune of South Dakota pushed back. President Obama, the Republicans noted, said last week that the cap-and-trade component of his budget is "nonnegotiable." This global warming reduction proposal amounts to an unprecedented national energy tax on every man, woman and child. Every household. Every business.

Bumper Solution to Global Warming

The Government spokesperson, Joleena Jobsworth, commented: “This important measure will help enormously to cut down on fuel consumption, and thus on damaging CO2 emissions. Having a black van or car will help to keep the vehicle a few degrees warmer in winter, and this will mean that drivers can use their car heaters less, or set them to a lower temperature. This is a bumper solution to global warming, and it shows how serious the Government is about this crucial issue.”
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Safety campaigners are also concerned: “White cars are much easier to see in the dark. A massive increase in the number of black cars and vans could well increase significantly the incidence of evening and early morning accidents and crashes. It could prove a black day for motorists.”