THE DEMS RUNNING CONGRESS ARE GETTING READY TO FURTHER DISTORT THE ENERGY MARKETS

NYTIMES: The Carbon Calculus

A CHANGE is in the works that could go a long way toward making alternative energy less alternative, and more attractive to consumers and businesses.

It’s not a technological fix from some solar-cell laboratory in Silicon Valley or wind-turbine researcher in Colorado or the development of some superbug to turn wood waste into ethanol.

Rather, the change would come from Washington, if Congress does what it has talked about and puts a price tag on greenhouse-gas emissions. Suddenly the carbon content of fuel, or how much carbon dioxide is produced per unit of energy, would be as important as what the fuel costs. In fact, it might largely define what the fuel costs.

That could shake up the economics of energy, handicapping some fuels and favoring others. Those that produce hefty emissions, like coal and oil, would likely look much worse. And some — sunlight, wind, uranium, even corn stalks and trash as well as natural gas — would probably look much better. “Carbon-negative” fuels that take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as they are made, might even become feasible.

• PUTTING EXTRA TAXES ON CARBON IS IDIOTIC, AND IT DISTORTS THE ENERGY MARKET.
• CO2 HS NO EFFECT ON GLOBAL CLIMATE.
• GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE IS NORMAL AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
• NY'S LONG ISLAND - WHERE I GREW UP - WAS ONCE UNDER A GLACIER.
• ANTARCTICA WAS ONCE A TROPICAL FOREST.
• THE ARCTIC WAS FORMED DURING AN OTHERWISE GLOBALLY WARM ERA 91 MILLION YEARS AGO.
  
• CO2 IS A LAGGING INDICATOR OF WARMING AND NOT A CAUSE; IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

The Democrat/Green policy is pure leftism: Elitist do-gooders think they can pick winners and losers better than the marketplace.

They're policies won't make "alternative" energy sources more attractive EXCEPT BY DEFAULT, by making good old regular energy sources more expensive.

This has never worked anywhere at anytime in any market. If it did work, then we'd all be driving cars made in the USSR, and West Germans would be clamoring to get into East Germany. And Floridians would be risking their lives to get into Cuba. And Zimbabwe would be richer now than when it was called Rhodesia. AND SO ON.

If we want cheaper energy all we need to do is build more clean coal plants and nuclear power plants and drill for oil in ANWR and off the coasts of CA and FLA.

The day we announce we're building more nuke and coal power plants... the moment we annouce we are going to drill for oil in ANWR and off the coasts of FLA and CA, OIL PRICES WILL DROP 10%.

If entrepreneurs want to invest in wind and solar and coal conversion and anything else: LET THEM.

But don't do it with my money; don't tax me and use the money to benefit one type of energy over another.

Carbon taxes and carbon credits are leftist schemes which will hurt the economy and a declining economy will lower living standards - especially for the poor, and the children.

These schemes hurt the economy because they're of no real benefit; they decrease efficiencies and increase costs. They DISTORT costs and prices artificially.

AND WHY?! In order to reduce the amount of man-made CO2 put into the atmosphere - as if this would change global climate.

SIGH.

This is about as likely as changing the speed of the rotation of the Earth by stream-lining buildings.