Flight taxes hiked to bail out banks: It's nothing to do with environment, says Darling | Mail Online

In an extraordinary intervention, the Chancellor said the higher air passenger duty being introduced tomorrow was needed to plug gaps in the national finances.

He made no attempt to justify the move - which will add £340 to the ticket for a family of four flying long haul - on environmental grounds, the official reason for the tax.

Airlines warned yesterday that the tax would cost thousands of jobs and do nothing to combat global warming.

Let's kill all the tomatoes!: A.J. DiCintio

...in their insatiable pursuit of power, liberals will connive mightily to institute abominations such as "Cap and Trade," a contrivance so mad Rube Goldberg couldn't even imagine it but one nevertheless beloved by partners at Goldman Sachs as well as accountants at the DNC and IRS.

They will continue to jet fuel all the way to Ulan Bator for a vacation or to Tierra del Fuego to attend a conference on "Reducing CO2 Emissions."

CNX Gas COO: Thumbs-down on cap-and-trade proposals

The region taking one of the biggest dollar losses include Pennsylvania, which would see electricity costs go up by $636.7 million; Ohio ($642.5 million); and West Virginia ($684.1 million). Illinois would see a jump of $763.5 million, but the biggest loser would be Texas, which would see electricity costs go up by about $1 billion.

The legislative proposals tend to directly oppose surveys regarding Americans' opinions about global warming. DeIuliis quoted a Rasmussen Report from September that found that 65 percent of Americans say creating jobs is more important than taking steps to stop global warming, and that 56 percent said they aren't willing to pay more in taxes and utility costs to generate cleaner energy and fight global warming.

Is the Chamber of Commerce Its Own Worst Enemy? - TIME

"We are not crazy or outside the mainstream," says David Chavern, the Chamber's COO. "We've been around for almost 100 years because we've done pretty good at figuring out what's needed for the business community to be successful and we are going to be around for another 100 years."

YouTube - Boxer and Whitehouse Answer GOP On Climate Change

At the first day of the Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer bill, Republican Senators accused their Democratic colleagues of writing a climate change bill that will "mean more economic pain" and kill jobs. Senator Boxer responded to these false claims: "Climate change, global warming isn't waiting for who's a Democrat and who's a Republican. Either we're going to deal with this problem or not."

YouTube - One minute: Democrats Highlight the Urgency of Climate Change [Hoax] Legislation

[Note that in this video, the opening graphic refers to the "Kerry/Boxer Global Warming Bill".  Jeff Merkley opens with this remarkable sentence: "We need to understand today what our children already understand: that this is a debate about the security of our nation, about how clean our air is,  about whether we create American jobs, about whether we have a strong economy in the future,  and about whether we are good stewards of our planet for the benefit of our ecosystems and human civilization. "]

Senators Merkley, Sanders and Kerry spoke to the urgency of passing comprehensive climate change legislation on the first day of the Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on the Kerry-Boxer bill. This, my friends, is a no brainer, said Senator Bernie Sanders. The science is there. The economics is there. The job creation is there.