Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Capping the Wild, Wild West’s Carbon Emissions » The Foundry
 A look at the states hit hardest by the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade policies immediately reveals a serious regional divide. The regions worst affected? About half the country.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: A Clunker of a Policy
Bottom line? Cash for clunkers fails basic economics and environmental tests, and in the case of the US it takes money from a program focused on investments in energy innovation. The politics of cash for clunkers should not lend anyone to optimism that far more complicated and far-reached legislation on cap-and-trade will be able to avoid such political trade-offs.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Quinnipiac poll: 39% of Americans need to inform on 52%
By a 72 - 21 percent margin, voters do not believe that President Barack Obama will keep his promise to overhaul the health care system without adding to the deficit, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University national poll finds.
Inhofe: Join Me in Signing the "No Climate Tax Pledge"
If we are going to defeat this massive tax increase and major expansion of the federal government, it is going to take the American public standing up and putting pressure on their elected officials. I hope you will join me and groups like Americans for Prosperity in getting the word out and making sure Washington knows just how bad this bill could be for American taxpayers.
No Climate Tax
There is one simple way to put members of Congress on the record and figure out if this is about the environmental at all, or just an excuse to hide a big tax increase: Click here and ask them to sign the pledge

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