And it is only 800 pages!
A climate change bill circulating in the Senate on Tuesday is slightly more ambitious than one passed in the House of Representatives, but still has many details to be worked out on how to encourage companies to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.
The legislation by Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry to be formally unveiled on Wednesday aims to reduce smokestack emissions of carbon dioxide by 20 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 — from 2005 levels.
Sweet! And, such transparency! Halp us Jon Carry, halp us!
Boxer’s Environment and Public Works Committee is expected to continue working behind closed doors to fill in other details before trying to sign off on the bill by the end of October.
John McCain has already stated he could never support this legislation, and James Inhofe said that he cannot imagine it being debated and passed this year.
The Senate Democrats’ bill also aims to encourage more “clean vehicles” and to improve airliners’ fuel efficiency. It also would help those who suffer job losses from climate control efforts with a “worker adjustment assistance” program.
With a wave of the mightly fairy wand and some unicorn poots, all will be well. As Bob Ellis at The Dakota Voice writes
This bill would cost millions of American jobs, raise our electric bills by 40% or more, hinder much-needed refining capacity, hurt foreign trade, block much-needed power plant development, require home inspections and environmental retrofitting before we can sell our homes, regulate how much water we can use in our own homes,
Courtesy of the Green Hell Blog, we have a look at the draft of the Senate version of the cap and trade global warming tax bill.
Apparently, not to be outdone by the asininity and hostility toward the American people of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate has upped the ante and called for a 20% reduction in greenhouse gases, even more  egregious than the House bill.
All this to “fix†a problem that doesn’t even exist!
Whether it exists or not, bottom line, Democrats see this issue as a way of controlling more of America’s economy, its businesses, and its People.
BTW, just be thankful I didn’t add one of my special Barbara Boxer photoshops!
I sure do hope that with all the issues facing this nation including this stupid tax & trade fiasco, like the deficit, the insane rush to institute some kind of health care reform, whether it’s good for us or not (or Gov’t takeover of said) the war in Afghanistan that should be addressed NOW, repeated calls of racism towards dissenters of his policies, that our half white president should be squelching, the rampant violence at the G20 that no one covered; I sure hope that while in Copenhagen, the president gets a big boondoggle for his hometown of Chicago. Yup, that would be SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET.