Global Warming Bill Could Cost Every U.S. Man, Woman and Child Up to $494 Annually

WaTimes Warns Climate Change Bill Has a Cost: $494 a Year for Every U.S. Man, Woman and Child

By Jeff Poor | November 13, 2007 - 17:39 ET
What's another $500 taken out of your paycheck over the course of a year? It probably isn't much to global warming alarmists like Al Gore, but that's what it could cost you if legislation pending in the U.S. Senate is passed into law.

Does that $500 have your attention? Well, multiply that times every member of your immediate family.

According to a November 11 Washington Times editorial, a bill introduced in the Senate by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and John Warner (R-Va.) that would require companies to scale back greenhouse-gas emissions could cost Americans $4 trillion to $6 trillion over the next 40 years.

If that bill were passed and made law, the tax would cost every man, woman and child - more than 303 million Americans - $494 a year, a significant burden on the U.S. economy.

If you're not yet skeptical of this global warming initiative, listen to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who warns the effects of carbon caps would be limited unless imposed globally. He said in his book, "The Age of Turbulence," that caps imposed only on the United States could be detrimental.

"There is no effective way to meaningfully reduce emissions without negatively impacting a large part of an economy," Greenspan wrote. "Net, it is a tax. If the cap is low enough to make a meaningful inroad into CO2 emissions, permits will become expensive and large numbers of companies will experience cost increases that make them less competitive. Jobs will be lost and real incomes of workers constrained."

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"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem." Ronald Reagan http://www.arguewitheveryone.com/war...bout-iraq.html

I can believe it. You know those "Energy Efficient Fluorescent" bulbs they sell all over, the ones that screw into a normal socket. They cost ten times as much as normal bulbs and here at my house they last half as long as the good old incandescents. Sure they save me a few pennies on the electric bill, but in no way does it make up for the cost of the bulbs.

We save money on the utility bill by keeping the thermostat set at 60 degrees and I pick up old pallets in my big van and burn them. Look at all the natural gas we are saving!

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For the Iraq war , total economic costs were estimated at $1.3 trillion for the period from 2002 to 2008. That would cost a family of four $16,500, the report said. Now that's thats a REAL significant burden.

Did you know the fluorescent bulbs are full of mercury? Don't break those things.

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IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY SMITTY

IN THE END IT'S ABOUT GOD........not lightbulbs .

^I^

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If you don't KNOW where you come from...you WILL wind up going nowhere.

That goes for Ideas, institutions as well as individuals :-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUncnWxjUXM

PSI TECH INVESTIGATIONS and LAW ENFORCEMENT

Well, I usualy make a point of putting them in a bag of water, smash them carefully and then pour the contents out in the neighbors dog dish...

But that's just my method of disposal.

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Are you saying:

1) Because we already wasted a significant amount of money on the war that it’s perfectly acceptable to waste more money on climate change

Or

2) Because we wasted so much money on the war it is all more reason not to waste money on climate change?

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