VIEWPOINT: Energy act [allegedly] fulfills vital national security goals | Grand Forks Herald

First, let’s be clear: There is no bill in front of either the Senate or House that is listed or titled as a “cap-and-trade bill.” That is just a term one side has grabbed to scare people away from the real issue.

The real issue is that we need to get away from our dependence on foreign oil. [Wait a minute, I thought this was all about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire.]
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Those who oppose the American Clean Energy and Security Act ask: How do we put a price on carbon emissions? My question to them is: How are you able to value the price of carbon emissions over the lives of our American service members? Are not the sacrifices that they and their families have made for our country worth more than that?

Stossel: Obliterating wealth isn't way to prosperity | Opinion

Even if carbon emissions are cut by a lot, economist Christopher Knittel says the program will cost more than $365 per ton of carbon saved.

Economist Bruce Yandle points out what a lousy deal that is: "The much-celebrated Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade carbon-emission control legislation estimates the cost of reducing a ton of carbon to be $28 when done across U.S. industries. Yes, we are getting carbon-emission reductions by way of clunker reduction, but we are paying a pretty penny for it."

Finally, there is something revolting about the government subsidizing the destruction of useful things. It reminds me of the New Deal policy of killing piglets and pouring milk down sewers to keep food prices from falling.

Leave it to politicians to think we can prosper by obliterating wealth.

[Obama speaks in Minneapolis yesterday: Not a word about the global warming hoax]

This is about America’s future, and whether we will be able to look back years from now and say that this was the moment when we met our responsibilities to our children. This was the moment when we met history’s test. And this was the moment when the United States of America renewed our capacity to do great things

[Obama speaks in Minneapolis in 2008 about heroically planning to save the world from trace amounts of carbon dioxide]

Barack Obama: “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”