What would you pay to [allegedly to] fight [alleged] global warming?

For the first time, someone has put a price on what Americans are willing to pay to protect their children and grandchildren from the effects of global warming: $18.75 a month.
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The poll then asked if respondents would be willing to pay $10 a month extra on their electric bills to cover higher costs if cap and trade significantly reduced greenhouses gases. Fifty-six percent said they would; 42 percent said they wouldn't.
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The consensus among climate scientists is that greenhouse gas emissions have caused, are causing and will continue to cause dangerous changes to the planet. Indeed, many climatologists believe the cap-and-trade bill is a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound. NASA scientist James Hansen, often called the "father of global warming," calls the bill a "monstrous absurdity."
But it is what is politically possible now — if only barely. If four House members had changed their votes, it would have failed, and there's no guarantee it will pass the Senate. It is just the first step on a long road, and it's going to cost all of us more than we're comfortable with.
To pretend that it will not is disingenuous. But to ignore the threat — even for the noble goal of promoting economic growth — is suicidal. Sooner or later, if you put off repairs on your roof, it will come crashing down on your children's heads.

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“In addition to real estate, the power of government has also swollen,” Carlson said. “It’s about to become morbidly obese because of cap-and-trade taxation. … Cap and trade is the biggest tax scheme in the history of the world.”

Carlson said global warming arguments are based on computer models, and do not match observational data. “Obama’s pledge to collect this tax and give most of it back in energy credits sounds suspiciously like a scam for the redistribution of wealth.”

Pat Beranski quoted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who said the hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral and take no action in a time of moral crisis.

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Sutton, along with Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-9, and their Democratic colleagues in the House also have approved the cap and trade energy bill. They would hand American manufacturers a heavy anchor then tell them to swim with the sharks of foreign competition who have no such burden.

Sutton assured us last week that the energy bill has many special provisions to ease the load on energy intensive firms such as Lorain's steel mills. But if drilling numerous holes in the cap and trade anchor is needed so American businesses can swim with it on, it would be even better to just throw the anchor away. Let businesses swim against their competitors unfettered.

Besides, cap and trade is a tax scam based on the false assumption of human-driven global warming. The weatherman can't tell us accurately if it will rain next week, but politicians insist they can control the climate and save the human race by making businesses buy "carbon credits."