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2008-04-16 Home Front: Politix

Bush decides to book passage on sinking Global Warming ship

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-16 02:42|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Fucking idiots will ruin our economy.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-16 10:46|| 2008-04-16 10:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Bush probably calculates that it will do no harm.

That is, he is an oilman. He knows energy. He also knows that this MMGW stuff is bulldada.

Remember when the MMGW crowd was getting up to demand ethanol. Well, sometimes the best way to kill an idea dead is to encourage it along. And that is what Bush did. Ethanol has quickly turned into a nightmare.

So what if Bush embraces MMGW? He is a lame duck. If the MMGW crowd are right, Bush will be the first president, a Republican, to endorse it. If they are wrong, then he can shrug it off--it isn't going to be a part of his legacy.

Of course, if MMGW is very wrong, they still won't be able to blame Bush for it, because everyone associates it with Algore.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-16 10:49|| 2008-04-16 10:49|| Front Page Top

#3 maybe
maybe not

Bush could cite the successes so far (e.g., 200% increase in wind power during his administration, substantial decrease in methane emissions, new emission standards for diesel trucks) and urge Congress to pass provisions of an earlier submitted bill regarding nuclear energy.

Bush could also cite the emission trends since 2000 that show that the Euros have increase their per capital emissions and we have decreased them.

Bush could also note that the Chicoms are now the biggest single source of CO2.

Posted by mhw 2008-04-16 12:11|| 2008-04-16 12:11|| Front Page Top

#4 if manmade CO2-induced global warming is real Kyoto and all its spinoffs aren't going to do a damn thing to stop it.

I guess they were right, Gore _did_ win in 2000, and it's just taken us 8 years to find out. I wonder what's under the next layer of latex mask, Leonard Nimoy?

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2008-04-16 13:12|| 2008-04-16 13:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Says that my Tax Freedom Day is April 18. Kansas is expecting snow this evening, about 3 weeks after the first day of Spring...does that mean that if we enact GW taxes my tax freedom day gets pushed back till March 9th?

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-04-16 15:26|| 2008-04-16 15:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Agreed, sIFF. Here in "Hotlanta", we're seeing *almost* record lows the last 3 days, and the Peach crop is in jeopardy from a freeze last night.

All this *after* the plants have started blooming ("Springtime").

Posted by BA 2008-04-16 16:01|| 2008-04-16 16:01|| Front Page Top

#7 1-3 inches of snow tonight in Denver.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-16 16:15|| 2008-04-16 16:15|| Front Page Top

#8 I read somewhere that he said the goal was to halt increases in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 or so. If the US switches to nuclear and can make some reasonable but non-detrimental changes to the energy sources for the transportation sector by then, it'll probably happen that way. I see it as an almost no-lose situation for W.

Posted by gorb 2008-04-16 17:04|| 2008-04-16 17:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Except the greenies will never allow Nuclear - no matter what or the opening up and ANWR. They would rather have us decrease our standard of living and our economy. It makes it much easier for them to implement their socialism.

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-04-16 17:26|| 2008-04-16 17:26|| Front Page Top

#10 Crazy, I think you are wrong. For some of them, you are, no doubt correct. They want everyone but themselves to live in huts, or better yet just die. But most people are going to realize we need energy, that coal, oil and natural gas-fired power plants are not the way of the future (at least now they aren't) and that nuclear is the viable alternative. This will be reinforced when new nuc plants currently getting licensed come on line and no one dies.

Posted by remoteman 2008-04-16 18:33|| 2008-04-16 18:33|| Front Page Top

#11 I'll beleive it when they do NOT sue and slow down construction planning (much less contruction itself).

Enviros do NOT care about the human cost, they seem to treat mankind as a parasite.

c.f. DDT, Rachel Carson's blatant lies, and the propagation of said lies that led to unnecessary deaths due to malaria in the MILLIONS.

Enviros rival Pol Pot, Hitler and Stalin as Mass Murderers.

Antrhopogenic Global Warming is a HOAX. Those espousing it should be ostracized for fearmongering, and eventually shot for enabling totalitarianism by the enviros.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-16 19:42|| 2008-04-16 19:42|| Front Page Top

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