Old Rocks
Diamond Member
Good post...but it just didn't go far enough. If Barry gets his 'Cap & Trade" passed...once again the poor will be hit the hardest. I don't think the poor can afford to have the democrats looking out for them.
Tell that to the millions that are out of work due to the deregulation of financial transactions. A la Phil Gramm and the Republicans.
And Bush pushed food based ethanol as hard as anybody. Many, myself included, thought it stupid from the start. Cellulostic, or algea based, but not food based.
I agree with you on this Old Rocks. That was a lame brain idea with the ethanol. See, I can rip Bush for stuff he did wrong, always have. On the other hand, why can't the liberals do the same with Obama? Obama has made mistakes, but the liberals will never call him out on it. That's just an observation.
Now, having said that...what the hell does that have to do with Cap and Trade hurting the poor? The poor are going to get hit with rising costs, and "fees" because of the current administration. The liberals will not stand up to the administration. This would be known as indoctrination, by the way.
There are many programs that Obama supports that I have doubts about. However, most of his policies are still in the making. And the ones that really matter right now, in the economic sphere, I, and many others, are taking a wait and see attitude. If we pull out of the present debacle without a major depression, President Obama will have a lot of credit coming. If we do not, then he will have to face the consequences, same as the Republicans are now facing the consequences for their actions and inactions over the last eight years.
Rather than ethonal, even cellulostic and algea based, I would rather see us going to bio-diesel with the same base. That would be an excellant use for our municipal sewage treatment plants. The University of Nevada has done some excellant work on this.
First stage of Nevada algae biodiesel completed successfully