I am plagerizing what was written by a North Dakota public utility commissioner - it applies for Texas, too - so here is the Texas version:
As President Ronald Reagan would say, "There they go again."
The Associated Press reported on June 29 that President Obama is
working with several Senators to "quietly draft" a version of Cap and
Trade deemed "utility-only."
They have been trying for 18 months to force a bill to destroy our fossil fuel industry. The people of the United States and North Dakota are against such a bill. This has not stopped the President and his allies.
The worst oil spill in history is wrecking havoc on our country. In true Chicago style, instead of focusing on stopping the leak and cleaning up the mess, it is being used to push another version of Cap and Trade.
This new version of the old bill is aimed directly at Texas.
A "utility-only" version of Cap and Trade means increased costs for refineries and power plants resulting in at least a 25-40 percent increase in utility costs and thousands of lost jobs for our state.
In addition to our strong fossil fuel industries, wind, biofuels, and other renewable energy sources continue to increase and Texas is number one in the country for wind power.
Texas’ balanced approach to energy development should be modeled by Washington, not punished.
It is time the President deliver a realistic policy that leads us towards genuine energy independence, not one that will wipe out our state's economy.
Showing posts with label cap and trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cap and trade. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
New global warming agency? Obama just doesn't get it
Obama just doesn't get it. Now that Climategate is open and all the government-funded scientists are scurrying for cover as more scandals come to light, Obama wants to name a new government agency dedicated to "addressing the impending doom of global warming." http://townhall.com/blog/g/a1cda50e-91c0-4843-be69-d3c72f574b50?comments=true&commentsSortDirection=Descending It's the economy, Obama - back off cap and trade, global warming, and creating new government agencies.
While the Washington, D.C. is shoveling out of record snow with more to come. It's clear Obama just doesn't get it.
While the Washington, D.C. is shoveling out of record snow with more to come. It's clear Obama just doesn't get it.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Global Warming Warming: Impact on Texas and Texans
Global Warming: Impact on Texas and Texans
Global warming (if you believe it is happening or induced by man’s activities) has a price. So does turning down the world’s thermostat. The question is, who pays for reducing greenhouse gases? And is the burden shared — or shifted unfairly?
Texas could lose 137,000 to 313,00 jobs by 2020 and 170,000 to 425,000 jobs by 2030 as a result of increased energy prices due to the proposed cap and trade program. The average Texas household could pay up to an extra $1,136 on household goods and services over a year with a total potential cost to Texas families of $6.9 billion.
Comptroller Susan Combs has great information on her website:
http://www.window.state.tx.us/finances/captrade/
Global warming (if you believe it is happening or induced by man’s activities) has a price. So does turning down the world’s thermostat. The question is, who pays for reducing greenhouse gases? And is the burden shared — or shifted unfairly?
Texas could lose 137,000 to 313,00 jobs by 2020 and 170,000 to 425,000 jobs by 2030 as a result of increased energy prices due to the proposed cap and trade program. The average Texas household could pay up to an extra $1,136 on household goods and services over a year with a total potential cost to Texas families of $6.9 billion.
Comptroller Susan Combs has great information on her website:
http://www.window.state.tx.us/finances/captrade/
AFP hosts two events - you don't want to miss them
On Monday, Nov. 30, AFPF will host a Health Care Town Hall to discuss the question, “What is the best prescription for healthy reform?” Speakers will also discuss the merits of the health care bill that passed through the U.S. House of Representatives and the bill now being debated in the U.S. Senate. Invited speakers include U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX 25), and two challengers for the Dist. 25 seat, Dr. Donna Campbell and George Morovich.
What: Health Care Town Hall
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Date: Monday, Nov. 30, 2009
Place: Omni Hotel at Southpark, 4140 Governors Row, Austin, TX
Then on Sunday, Dec. 6, AFPF will host a screening of “Not Evil, Just Wrong,” a film that exposes the high cost of global warming hysteria. The documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney reveals the deceptions about global warming that scientists, politicians, educators and the media have been telling the public for years, and which is the basis for the cap and trade legislation now in the U.S. Senate. Dr. John Dunn of the Heartland Institute will speak about the cap and trade legislation before the screening begins.
What: Screening of “Not Evil, Just Wrong”
Time: 4:30 – 7 p.m.
Date: Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009
Place: Dave and Busters, 9333 Research Blvd. Austin, TX
What: Health Care Town Hall
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Date: Monday, Nov. 30, 2009
Place: Omni Hotel at Southpark, 4140 Governors Row, Austin, TX
Then on Sunday, Dec. 6, AFPF will host a screening of “Not Evil, Just Wrong,” a film that exposes the high cost of global warming hysteria. The documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney reveals the deceptions about global warming that scientists, politicians, educators and the media have been telling the public for years, and which is the basis for the cap and trade legislation now in the U.S. Senate. Dr. John Dunn of the Heartland Institute will speak about the cap and trade legislation before the screening begins.
What: Screening of “Not Evil, Just Wrong”
Time: 4:30 – 7 p.m.
Date: Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009
Place: Dave and Busters, 9333 Research Blvd. Austin, TX
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
AFP President Tim Phillips in WSJ
In response to: Cap and Trade Could Be a Boon to New York by Senator Gillibrand.
Hasn't the country learned its lesson that creating fanciful financial instruments, like derivatives, and allowing Wall Street to bandy them about institutionalizes instability? Carbon derivatives would be even worse than financial instruments that gave us the housing bubble. Cap and trade seeks to create a commodity out of thin air. The government would create a value where none exists. At least the mortgage securities had an actual asset behind them.
Tim Phillips
President
Americans for Prosperity
Arlington, Va.
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/letters.html
Hasn't the country learned its lesson that creating fanciful financial instruments, like derivatives, and allowing Wall Street to bandy them about institutionalizes instability? Carbon derivatives would be even worse than financial instruments that gave us the housing bubble. Cap and trade seeks to create a commodity out of thin air. The government would create a value where none exists. At least the mortgage securities had an actual asset behind them.
Tim Phillips
President
Americans for Prosperity
Arlington, Va.
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/letters.html
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Exposing the Fraud: the Globe is Cooling
The U.S. is considering the "cap and trade" global warming energy tax which may double family electricity prices, increase what we pay at the gas pumps, and cost jobs. In these tough economic times, the Obama Administration and Congress should be focused on incentivising the private sector to create jobs. And the real kicker is that the bill would not achieve any discernable environmental improvement. However, the most ironic aspect of the power grab isn't that it will make Al Gore richer (it will) but that the earth isn't heating - it is cooling! Read below:
07-12-2009 15:32
Chills of Global Cooling
By Deroy Murdock
Scripps Howard News Service
As cap-and-trade advocates tie their knickers in knots over so-called ``global warming," Mother Nature refuses to cooperate. Earth's temperatures continue a chill that began 11 years ago. As global cooling accelerates, global-warmists kick, scream, and push their pet theory ― just like little kids who cover their ears and stomp their feet when older children tell them not to bother waiting up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
Consider how the globe cooled last month:
― June in Manhattan averaged 67.5 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.7 degrees below normal _ the coldest average since 1958. The National Weather Service stated July 1: ``The last time that Central Park hit 85 in May... but not in June was back in 1903."
― In Phoenix, June's high temperatures were below 100 degrees for 15 days straight, the first such June since 1913. In California's desert, Yucca Valley's June average was 83.5, 8.5 degrees below normal. Downtown Los Angeles averaged 74.5 degrees, five below normal.
― Boston saw temperatures 4.7 degrees below normal. ``This is the second coldest average high temp since 1872," veteran meteorologist and Weather Channel alumnus Joseph D'Aleo reports at Icecap.com. ``It has been so cool and so cloudy that trees in northern New England are starting to show colors that normally first appear in September." Looking abroad, D'Aleo noted: ``Southern Brazil had one of the coldest Junes in decades, and New Zealand has had unusual cold and snow again this year."
― New Zealand's National Climate Center issued a June 2 press release headlined, ``TEMPERATURE: LOWEST EVER FOR MAY FOR MANY AREAS, COLDER THAN NORMAL FOR ALL."
― South African officials say cold weather killed two vagrants in the Eastern Cape. Both slept outdoors June 26 and froze to death.
Simmer down, global-warmists retort. These are mere anecdotes, hand-picked to make them look silly.
Well, one would be foolish to challenge space-born satellites that gauge Earth's mean temperatures ― cold, hot, and average. Here again, evidence of global cooling accumulates like snow drifts.
``There has been no significant global warming since 1995, no warming since 1998, and global cooling for the past few years," former U.S. Senate Environment Committee spokesman Marc Morano writes at ClimateDepot.com. Citing metrics gathered by University of Alabama, Huntsville's Dr. Roy Spencer, Morano adds: ``The latest global averaged satellite temperature data for June 2009 reveal yet another drop in Earth's temperature ... Despite his dire warnings, the Earth has cooled 0.74 degrees F since former Vice President Al Gore released 'An Inconvenient Truth' in 2006."
Earth's temperatures fall even as the planet spins within what global-warmists consider a thickening cloud of toxic carbon dioxide.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory at Mauna Loa, Hawaii consistently and reliably has measured CO2 for the last 50 years. CO2 concentrations have risen steadily for a half-century.
For December 1958, the Laboratory reported an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 314.67 parts per million (PPM). Flash forward to December 1998, about when global cooling reappeared. CO2 already had increased to 366.87 PPM. By December 2008, CO2 had advanced to 385.54 PPM, a significant 5.088 percent growth in one decade.
This capsizes the carbon-phobic global-warmist argument. For Earth's temperatures to sink while CO2 rises contradicts global warming as thoroughly as learning that firefighters can battle blazes by spraying them with gasoline.
So, to defeat so-called ``global warming," there is no need for the $864 billion Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, the Kyoto Protocols, elaborate new regulations, or United Nations guidelines. Instead, let the cold times roll.
It is one thing to have a national debate about a serious problem, with adults differing over which solution might work best. Reasonable people, for instance, can dispute whether growing federal involvement would heal or inflame our healthcare system's serious maladies.
But as so-called ``global warming" proves fictional, those who would shackle the economy with taxes and regulations to fight mythology increasingly resemble deinstitutionalized derelicts on an urban street corner, wildly swatting at their own imaginary monsters.
Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. E-mail him at deroy.Murdock@gmail.com.
07-12-2009 15:32
Chills of Global Cooling
By Deroy Murdock
Scripps Howard News Service
As cap-and-trade advocates tie their knickers in knots over so-called ``global warming," Mother Nature refuses to cooperate. Earth's temperatures continue a chill that began 11 years ago. As global cooling accelerates, global-warmists kick, scream, and push their pet theory ― just like little kids who cover their ears and stomp their feet when older children tell them not to bother waiting up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.
Consider how the globe cooled last month:
― June in Manhattan averaged 67.5 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.7 degrees below normal _ the coldest average since 1958. The National Weather Service stated July 1: ``The last time that Central Park hit 85 in May... but not in June was back in 1903."
― In Phoenix, June's high temperatures were below 100 degrees for 15 days straight, the first such June since 1913. In California's desert, Yucca Valley's June average was 83.5, 8.5 degrees below normal. Downtown Los Angeles averaged 74.5 degrees, five below normal.
― Boston saw temperatures 4.7 degrees below normal. ``This is the second coldest average high temp since 1872," veteran meteorologist and Weather Channel alumnus Joseph D'Aleo reports at Icecap.com. ``It has been so cool and so cloudy that trees in northern New England are starting to show colors that normally first appear in September." Looking abroad, D'Aleo noted: ``Southern Brazil had one of the coldest Junes in decades, and New Zealand has had unusual cold and snow again this year."
― New Zealand's National Climate Center issued a June 2 press release headlined, ``TEMPERATURE: LOWEST EVER FOR MAY FOR MANY AREAS, COLDER THAN NORMAL FOR ALL."
― South African officials say cold weather killed two vagrants in the Eastern Cape. Both slept outdoors June 26 and froze to death.
Simmer down, global-warmists retort. These are mere anecdotes, hand-picked to make them look silly.
Well, one would be foolish to challenge space-born satellites that gauge Earth's mean temperatures ― cold, hot, and average. Here again, evidence of global cooling accumulates like snow drifts.
``There has been no significant global warming since 1995, no warming since 1998, and global cooling for the past few years," former U.S. Senate Environment Committee spokesman Marc Morano writes at ClimateDepot.com. Citing metrics gathered by University of Alabama, Huntsville's Dr. Roy Spencer, Morano adds: ``The latest global averaged satellite temperature data for June 2009 reveal yet another drop in Earth's temperature ... Despite his dire warnings, the Earth has cooled 0.74 degrees F since former Vice President Al Gore released 'An Inconvenient Truth' in 2006."
Earth's temperatures fall even as the planet spins within what global-warmists consider a thickening cloud of toxic carbon dioxide.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory at Mauna Loa, Hawaii consistently and reliably has measured CO2 for the last 50 years. CO2 concentrations have risen steadily for a half-century.
For December 1958, the Laboratory reported an atmospheric CO2 concentration of 314.67 parts per million (PPM). Flash forward to December 1998, about when global cooling reappeared. CO2 already had increased to 366.87 PPM. By December 2008, CO2 had advanced to 385.54 PPM, a significant 5.088 percent growth in one decade.
This capsizes the carbon-phobic global-warmist argument. For Earth's temperatures to sink while CO2 rises contradicts global warming as thoroughly as learning that firefighters can battle blazes by spraying them with gasoline.
So, to defeat so-called ``global warming," there is no need for the $864 billion Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, the Kyoto Protocols, elaborate new regulations, or United Nations guidelines. Instead, let the cold times roll.
It is one thing to have a national debate about a serious problem, with adults differing over which solution might work best. Reasonable people, for instance, can dispute whether growing federal involvement would heal or inflame our healthcare system's serious maladies.
But as so-called ``global warming" proves fictional, those who would shackle the economy with taxes and regulations to fight mythology increasingly resemble deinstitutionalized derelicts on an urban street corner, wildly swatting at their own imaginary monsters.
Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. E-mail him at deroy.Murdock@gmail.com.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Texas leader walks citizens through important "cap and trade" debate and what it means to you
Commissioner Michael Williams (R-TX) has begun a multi-part series on the “cap and trade” legislation making its way through Congress.
Part 1: http://www.williamsfortexas.com/posts/14
Each day this week, Commissioner Williams will post the next part of the series. The goal is to educate what “cap and trade” is and expose it for what it truly is: a national energy tax that will harm all Texans and Americans.
The education portion is important. In May of this year, Rasmussen reported the following findings:
“Given a choice of three options, just 24% of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29%) believe the proposal has something to do with regulating Wall Street while 17% think the term applies to health care reform. A plurality (30%) have no idea.”
Subsequent topics will include:
• Waiting to exhale: the EPA endangerment finding
• Cap and trade 101
• All cap and trade programs are not created equal
• The disproportionate adverse impact CO2 cap and trade will have on Texas
• It’s worthless without China
• How you can help!
Part 1: http://www.williamsfortexas.com/posts/14
Each day this week, Commissioner Williams will post the next part of the series. The goal is to educate what “cap and trade” is and expose it for what it truly is: a national energy tax that will harm all Texans and Americans.
The education portion is important. In May of this year, Rasmussen reported the following findings:
“Given a choice of three options, just 24% of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29%) believe the proposal has something to do with regulating Wall Street while 17% think the term applies to health care reform. A plurality (30%) have no idea.”
Subsequent topics will include:
• Waiting to exhale: the EPA endangerment finding
• Cap and trade 101
• All cap and trade programs are not created equal
• The disproportionate adverse impact CO2 cap and trade will have on Texas
• It’s worthless without China
• How you can help!
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