Warning Signs: Obama's Big Lies and Small

So the President is lying about something most Americans distrust and don’t believe. Meanwhile, the lapdog media continues to report “global warming” despite the fact that more than half the voters have concluded they are just hyping it. And that’s exactly what they and the President are doing.

It’s Supposed to be Painful | Coyote Blog

Megan McArdle points out the real problem that carbon taxes and other CO2-abatement approaches have — they only really work if it they are painful. I mean, the whole point is not supposed to be to raise government revenue or just arbitrarily raise prices. The whole point is to change behaviors, and the most powerful tool for behavior change is price changes.

“Cap and Trade Is a Tax: And It’s A Great Big One” » The Foundry

Cap and Trade Top Ten List

1. Cap and Trade Is a Massive Energy Tax
2. It Will Not Make A Substantive Impact on the Environment
3. It Will Kill Jobs
4. It Will Cause Electricity Bills and Gas Prices to Sharply Increase
5. It Will Outsource Manufacturing Jobs and Hurt Free Trade
6. It Will Make You Choose Between Energy, Groceries, Clothing or Haircuts.
7. It Will Be Highly Susceptible to Fraud and Corruption
8. It Will Hurt Senior Citizens, the Poor, and the Unemployed the Worst
9. It Will Cost American Families Over $3,000 a Year
10. President Obama Admitted “Electricity Rates Would Necessarily Skyrocket” under a cap-and-trade program. (January 2008)