Barack Obama to the San Francisco in a January 17, 2008 interview:
Let me sort of describe my overall policy.
What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there.
I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
The only thing I've said with respect to coal, I haven't been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it. I'm starting to wonder what it is in the air in San Francisco that makes Obama spit out the truth regarding the Keystone State. Sourdough spores? Smoke drifting over fro m the Haight? Cable car fumes?
Whatever it is, give Obama a double-dose tomorrow ...
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it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
Let me see if I have this straight: the idea is to take the insane fees from coal-powered plants that no one will build and use the money to invest in alternative energy. This is what mathematicians refer to as "totally nutso".
And what's with the date of January 17, 2008? It took that long to filter thru the media?
Michelle Malkin then Lucianne then Drudge and then even CBS. Looks like this one slipped in just in time to get around but not early enough to bury. Darn. /s Could have used a day or three earlier to influence the early voters.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
