American Thinker Blog: Coercion: In Spite of the Will of the People

Americans will soon be coerced into accepting unsafe matchbox cars to meet CAFE standards decreed by Obama. We are coerced by Al Gore and the EPA into "believing" that carbon dioxide is a deadly poison, that the earth is about to overheat, and that only the EPA can save us from that fate. The high priests of cap and trade are attempting to coerce us into accepting a huge across-the-board tax increase in the name of green energy and the aforesaid carbon dioxide.

Are we sure that a degree of warming per century would rank as our biggest problem?

"You live in Minnesota?" Yeah. -30 wind chill in the winter. 100 isn't unusual in the summer. Hail, high water, tornadoes, floods, blizzards, wind chill, blowing dust, fog, ice, thunder, lightning. Sometimes all of the above in one day. Yes, Minnesotans know something about climate change. We endure it on a daily basis.