Look at the states those Republicans represent and you’ll have at least part of the answer.

Well, if Greenpeace can’t support the bill, then it can’t be all bad!

If what you say is true, particularly about regulating co-called “greenhouse gasses” then maybe all is not lost.

Still, I think the bill is a stinker.

Because it’s a big pile of corporate welfare.

Here’s what’s WRONG with the legislation:

* The Nobel-prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that to avoid the worst climate impacts such as intense droughts, super charged hurricanes and increased heat waves, the U.S. and other industrialized countries must cut their emissions by 25-40% below 1990 levels by 2020. This bill, as it’s currently written, only calls for a 4% reduction by 2020. And there’s very little chance those targets will be improved.
* These weak targets are made even worse by 2 billion tons per year of allowable offsets. Offsets allow polluters to put off for more than a decade real cuts in their emissions The offsets are so high that they will exceed the actual pollution reductions required until at least 2026 — that’s time we don’t have!
* Coal-fired power plants are the single largest source of global warming pollution in the U.S. In order to tackle climate change, we need to begin phasing out coal immediately. But instead of phasing-out coal plants, ACES will actually encourage the growth of a new generation of coal-fired plants! To add insult to injury, tens of billions of taxpayer dollars would be spent on the myth of carbon capture and sequestration — an untested and unproven technology that is decades away from full-scale deployment even by the most optimistic estimates.

Worst of all, ACES will actually remove the President’s existing authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act—an authority that was recently reaffirmed by the Supreme Court. Now that the House has proven that it won’t step up and stop global warming, President Obama’s power to regulate greenhouse gases is our greatest hope.

WOW, I came to this website thinking of aliening (sic) myself with the progressive movement.

You argue will (sic)Rome burns.

The ship is sinking instead of bucket in your hand you have a drill. God save us all.

I wonder if this troll came here to alienate rather than align itself? Seems to be a right wing phenomenon, thinking one thing while trying to write or say something else.

I suppose it knows that Rome did burn but not that Nero was accused of fiddling while it burned, he wasn’t arguing.

The first order of business on a sinking ship is to stop the source of water. Unless a bucket will plug the leak it will be like someone treading water, a lot of work but no progress.

Perhaps this troll needs to go back to school to learn some language basics.

Go try your luck at Freepers or Redstate. Then get back to us.

“…several members defected to support it, including Reps. Dave Reichart (R-WA), Mike Castle (R-DE), Mary Bono Mack, Mark Kirk (R-IL), Leonard Lance (R-NJ), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Chris Smith (R-NJ), and John McHugh (R-NY).”

Because it’s a big pile of corporate welfare.

Four thumbs up!