Carbon tax won't change anything - Letters, Opinion - Independent.ie

Who in their right mind could give credence to any party that would countenance such a ridiculous proposal?

The Greens' proposal to introduce a carbon tax is to assuage a small, elite minority.

It cannot achieve a meaningful reduction of greenhouse gases but its imposition will add more misery to 85pc of the travelling public and a further unnecessary burden on businesses already struggling to compete with countries that continue to have much lower taxes on their transport fuel.

Des Quinn

Granholm’s California-by-the-Lakes - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online

To summarize then: Having required state utilities to generate 20 percent of their electricity from more expensive wind sources (a similar program in Denmark has driven power rates to 30 cents per kWh compared to Michigan’s current 8.5 cents), Democrats now may require the same utilities to cut their bills by 20 percent.

You heard that right: Granholm will require utilities to provide costlier energy — and cap the prices customers pay for it. Does anyone in the Michigan Democratic party know basic economics? They plan to artificially prop up demand at the same time as they artificially restrict supply: the only way to square that circle is to ration the product.

Barbara Boxer and John F. Kerry - What Palin Got Wrong About Energy

The truth is, clean energy legislation doesn't make energy scarcer or more expensive...
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The carefully crafted clean energy bill that we will present to the Senate, building on the Waxman-Markey legislation passed by the House, will jump-start our economy, protect consumers, stop the ravages of unchecked global climate change and ensure that the United States -- not China or India -- will be the leading economic power in this century.

By creating powerful incentives for clean energy, it will create millions of jobs in America -- building wind turbines, installing solar panels on homes and producing a new fleet of electric and hybrid vehicles.
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We are already working every day in the Senate to pass legislation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create millions of clean energy jobs and protect our children from pollution. We respectfully invite Gov. Palin to join that reality-based debate -- one that relies on facts, science, tested economics and steely-eyed national security interests. Our country needs nothing less, and our planet depends on it.

Flashback: Obama: Energy Prices Will Skyrocket Under My Cap and Trade Plan | NewsBusters.org

…under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…

USW’s Gerard blasts GE on ‘Buy American’ stance

The head of the United Steelworkers union has blasted General Electric Co.'s top executive for talking out of both sides of his mouth in touting the importance of a strong U.S. manufacturing base while at the same time opposing "Buy American" provisions and shifting large parts of the company's production offshore.

USW president Leo Gerard is specifically zeroing in on GE's long-standing practice of buying parts for products like wind turbines and jet engines from countries having the lowest costs, like China or India.