Quote Originally Posted by East Detroit View Post
So, your argument stands that cash is more important than climate?
No, read it again. The world climate has been cooling for the last two years because of the lack of sunspot activity anyway. Maybe if the sunspots come back, the world's climate will start warming up again and help sustain the case for global warming. In that case your stupid bill will still accomplish very little. It just shifts production and jobs to India and China where there are fewer environmental controls than are here now. What you have accomplished is to put Americans out of work and transferred some of that work to smoke belching plants in China. China is also using more of its surplus dollars buying up commodities and natural resources, including forests, all over the world. Of course, Al Gore's new company offers "policy solutions' will be brokering pollution credits. I would like to get into the pollution credit futures market before it turns into a bubble. It's what Al Gore refers to as "Sustainabilty Capitalism".

I'm puzzled why some Democrats like this legislation. it really sounds more like some sort of bad Republican idea which McCain actually did support.
-It adds a regressive tax
-It will kill more jobs than it creates
-It brokers arbitrary credits as Wall Street commodities.
-It will hinder a recovery
-It transfers pollution to China instead of ending pollution