DoctorDoom
08-10-2007, 12:57 PM
The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee this week announced a plan to fight global warming by reducing carbon emissions up to 80 percent by the year 2050. This would be done by raising gasoline taxes 50 cents per gallon and ending mortgage tax deductions on large houses, which the Michigan Democrat called "McMansions."
During town hall meetings in Ann Arbor and in Dearborn, Rep. John Dingell said he will make these proposals as part of a multi-tiered bill he will introduce on Sept. 1 in his committee, which handles legislation dealing with global warming.
Some home-contracting firms, however, criticized Dingell's proposal as misguided and economically detrimental. And some conservative tax experts agreed, noting that Americans already pay too much in taxes and raising taxes more will only curtail consumption and investment.Fight Global Warming by Taxing 'McMansions,' Dingell Says (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200708/NAT20070810a.html)
... fight global warming by reducing carbon emissions up to 80 percent by the year 2050.Do these asswarts have a nanoclue about the numbers they fling around? If Dingell-ling did even a five-minute study about the real science involved, he'd STFU and stop making a flaming ass of himself.
The annual US ourput of anthropegenic CO2 is 6.283 billion tons. Reducing that by 80% means reducing our output to 1.257 billion tons. Since we assume that Dingell-berry doesn't want to kill the US population, we subtract the 121 million tons that we exhale yearly, and we wind up being told that by 2050 our annual ACO2 output must be 1.136 billion tons, 18% of our present level.
Exactly how does the imbecile propose that the US do that without destroying its economy, particularly since his party opposes nuclear energy, which could replace fossil fuel for electricity?
During town hall meetings in Ann Arbor and in Dearborn, Rep. John Dingell said he will make these proposals as part of a multi-tiered bill he will introduce on Sept. 1 in his committee, which handles legislation dealing with global warming.
Some home-contracting firms, however, criticized Dingell's proposal as misguided and economically detrimental. And some conservative tax experts agreed, noting that Americans already pay too much in taxes and raising taxes more will only curtail consumption and investment.Fight Global Warming by Taxing 'McMansions,' Dingell Says (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200708/NAT20070810a.html)
... fight global warming by reducing carbon emissions up to 80 percent by the year 2050.Do these asswarts have a nanoclue about the numbers they fling around? If Dingell-ling did even a five-minute study about the real science involved, he'd STFU and stop making a flaming ass of himself.
The annual US ourput of anthropegenic CO2 is 6.283 billion tons. Reducing that by 80% means reducing our output to 1.257 billion tons. Since we assume that Dingell-berry doesn't want to kill the US population, we subtract the 121 million tons that we exhale yearly, and we wind up being told that by 2050 our annual ACO2 output must be 1.136 billion tons, 18% of our present level.
Exactly how does the imbecile propose that the US do that without destroying its economy, particularly since his party opposes nuclear energy, which could replace fossil fuel for electricity?