Naturalized-Texan
04-16-2007, 06:09 PM
Journalist, David Freddoso, a political reporter for Evans and Novak Inside Report, has constructed two scenarios for how we could comply with the Kyoto Treaty:
Scenario #1:
“According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the United States generated 5,802 million metric tons (MMT) of CO2 in 2003. Naturally, this number has grown over the years as our economy has expanded. In 1990 we emitted just 4,969 MMT of carbon dioxide. If we had ratified the Kyoto treaty, we would have committed to cut emissions to levels 7 percent below that 1990 level – or to about 4,260 MMT.
“Can we cut emissions by that much? Sure we can. I’m looking at the Energy Information Administration’s table of all fifty states’ levels of carbon dioxide emissions. If we shut down all industry and electric generation in the fourteen “Blue” States (the ones that went to John Kerry in 2004) east of the Mississippi River, then seize all automobiles, airplanes, and private land there, we would slightly overshoot the Kyoto goals.”
Scenario #2:
“In 2003, gasoline use in the U.S. accounted for 1,141 MMT or about 20 percent of our total carbon dioxide emissions. If Congress acts today to outlaw the use of gasoline for all uses – automobiles, lawnmowers, generators, et cetera – we’d be within just 40 million metric tons of reaching our Kyoto goals. And that’s great, unless you like to drive, or have food brought to your grocery store, or having ambulances and fire trucks that can respond to emergencies.”
(Source: Horner, Christopher C., The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to Global Warming, pp 252-3)
Scenario #1:
“According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the United States generated 5,802 million metric tons (MMT) of CO2 in 2003. Naturally, this number has grown over the years as our economy has expanded. In 1990 we emitted just 4,969 MMT of carbon dioxide. If we had ratified the Kyoto treaty, we would have committed to cut emissions to levels 7 percent below that 1990 level – or to about 4,260 MMT.
“Can we cut emissions by that much? Sure we can. I’m looking at the Energy Information Administration’s table of all fifty states’ levels of carbon dioxide emissions. If we shut down all industry and electric generation in the fourteen “Blue” States (the ones that went to John Kerry in 2004) east of the Mississippi River, then seize all automobiles, airplanes, and private land there, we would slightly overshoot the Kyoto goals.”
Scenario #2:
“In 2003, gasoline use in the U.S. accounted for 1,141 MMT or about 20 percent of our total carbon dioxide emissions. If Congress acts today to outlaw the use of gasoline for all uses – automobiles, lawnmowers, generators, et cetera – we’d be within just 40 million metric tons of reaching our Kyoto goals. And that’s great, unless you like to drive, or have food brought to your grocery store, or having ambulances and fire trucks that can respond to emergencies.”
(Source: Horner, Christopher C., The Politically Incorrect GuideTM to Global Warming, pp 252-3)