Who determines what "pollution" is?...A bunch of politicians and bureaucrats, that's who.
Pretty hilarious to watch someone who gets all sputtering and apoplectic about crony capitalism support the biggest crony scam to come down the pike.....ever.
So, you deny there is a such thing as pollution? WOW DUD, you take the prize as the biggest pea brain on the planet.
Hey DUD, do you have any concept of cost externalization?
Funny, you claimed you were a 'libertarian', and the truth is you are a Beck moron...
Hey Jethro, how is that fools gold Beck is pushing working out for ya?
I didn't deny that there's pollution, Mr. Bodine...I pointed out that when politicians and bureaucrats control the meaning of the word, it could, in the fine tradition of Orwell, mean just about anything under the sun.
Speaking of externalities, I also notice that goobers like you
always ignore the externalities of your authoritarian do-goodery...Probably because you care more about your image and claimed intentions, rather than any positive results in actual reality.
None of which addresses the fact that cap-n-tax will be the biggest crony capitalist tool of all time, while nitwits like you who wouldn't know a truly free market if it fell on you claim that it's a "free market" solution to a non-existent problem.
Ah, DUD, the 'free market' entrepreneurial wizard...
Reminds me of the 1967 movie The Graduate...
Mr. McQuire: Come with me for a minute. I want to talk to you.
I just want to say on word to you, just one word.
Ben: Yes, sir.
Mr. McQuire: Are you listening?
Ben: Yes I am.
Mr. McQuire: Plastics.
Ben: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McQuire: There is a great future in plastics.
Think about it. Will you think about it?
Ben: Yes, I will.
Mr. McQuire: Enough said. That's a deal.
The global race is on, and, just as the tech boom of the 1990s did for the United States, clean energy will create good jobs and huge economic growth for the winner. The question is who that will be.
Right now, it's not us. China, South Korea, Germany, Spain and France are already transitioning to clean energy, investing billions in research and creating robust domestic markets. On the very day that the Senate bill was declared dead, China announced that it is making $740 billion in new clean-energy investments, according to China Daily, the state-run English-language newspaper. China also announced that it is imposing a domestic price on carbon -- essentially adding a fee to fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas that produce carbon pollution.
Such moves are not motivated solely by environmental altruism. The market for clean-energy technology is expected to double to $2.7 trillion by 2020, and it is estimated that the clean-energy sector will employ 20 million people by 2030. If we don't act now, we're going to be buying clean-energy products from China rather than building them here and selling them to the rest of the world. In fact, we already are. America has a trade deficit in clean-energy technology.
For the United States to get back in the lead in this energy race, we must put a price on carbon, though with a mechanism that is less complex than what cap-and-trade has become. This price will encourage industries to move to cleaner energy and will generate the revenue that the United States needs to invest in innovation in this field. With the right incentives, we can develop clean-energy technologies that are as affordable as coal and oil, creating jobs and new industries.
Reform advocates long ago began to understand the power of this message. Prominent activists -- including Al Gore -- started talking less about saving the planet and more about spurring economic growth, improving national security and ending pollution disasters such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
And there sits DUD, the 'free market' entrepreneurial wizard...
With DUD's 'vision' and free marketeering skills, he invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having "nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."
