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The Cap-and-Trade tax reminds me of a medieval Catholic indulgence – a practice in which the sinners are excused from their mischief after they do some good work. In the Dark Ages, forgiveness was granted for any sin if the offender paid a good chunk of gold to the church. Greedy church officials collected mountains of treasures and sinners were running wild. And guess what? People didn’t like it. The rotten practice of “paying for forgiveness” is considered the main cause of the Protestant Revolution. People stood up for the moral. The message was clear – just do not sin. There are things money can’t buy…

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This is what they say in California; big screen TV’s are bad for the environment. Of course they are; how could something that people across all political and socioeconomic spectrums love so much not be bad for something? Then again we are talking about California. Banning flat screen TV’s is just the next logical step for a state that has been out of regulatory control for a long, long time.

California regulators are trying to pass the first ban on flat screen TV’s; they say the televisions are energy consuming monsters that need the long arm of state government to regulate which ones you can buy and have in your home. It’s for the good of the planet after all.

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Let me start this post by saying right off the bat that I’m not a car guy. That being said, a car that runs on urine may be the invention of the century. Okay, the Mazda CX-7 doesn’t run on actual urine, but what it does run on is a combination of urea and water that is very similar to human urine. The mixture is called AdBlue.

Basically how it works is the urea based liquid, or urine is injected into the car’s exhaust system which reduces the harmful emissions by turning them into water and nitrogen. Sound good so far? The AdBlue mixture costs about $140 dollars per refill and needs to be filled every 12,500 miles.

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We reported yesterday, like every other news agency and blog in the free world that the “Cash for Clunkers” program had run out of money and was being terminated by the government. Mysteriously, there has been a “Cash for Clunkers” extension in about a 24 hour period with $2 billion more dollars. Hmmmm.

Cash for Clunkers

Does anyone else find it odd that this government program designed to have you driving some piece of garbage that you wouldn’t otherwise drive has miraculously been allocated $2 billion dollars in less time than it would take for me to bum $20 bucks off my brother?

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Here’s another lovely bit of information that is hidden in one of the Democrats 1200 page bills, okay maybe it’s only 900 pages. A toilet paper tax of 3% is proposed in Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s “Water Resources Protection Act”. Mr. Blumenauer is from Oregon, go figure.

Rep. Blumenauer (He Just Looks Like He Wants to Tax You)

The Water Resources Protection Act imposes a 3% tax on any item disposed of in water, including toilet paper. The government would expect to bring in an extra $10 billion dollars in revenue due to these new taxes. I love how they word it in the bill:

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According to the publication Science Daily, global warming predictions may not necessarily be accurate. A new study from Nature Geoscience found that scientists are not as confident as Al Gore would make them out to be.

No one knows exactly how much Earth’s climate will warm due to carbon emissions, but a new study suggests scientists’ best predictions about global warming might be incorrect.

No freaking way!! This is poppycock of course, as we have been told, the science is settled!

The study, which appears in Nature Geoscience, found that climate models explain only about half of the heating that occurred during a well-documented period of rapid global warming in Earth’s ancient past. The study, which was published online July 13, contains an analysis of published records from a period of rapid climatic warming about 55 million years ago known as the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM.

“In a nutshell, theoretical models cannot explain what we observe in the geological record,” said oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a co-author of the study and professor of Earth science at Rice University. “There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models.”

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If you want to read an article that will surely make your eyes bleed, be sure to check out Reuter’s latest “alert”, New climate strategy: track the world’s wealthiest. This piece of tripe, written by so-called “environment correspondent” Deborah Zabarenko, is one of the most egregious examples of MSM propaganda that I’ve come across in a long time. The gist of the article is that we should tax the “wealthy” and by extension the country they belong to, more for carbon emissions. From the article:

As it stands now, under the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol, rich countries shoulder most of the burden for cutting the emissions that spur global warming, while developing countries — including fast-growing economies China and India — are not required to curb greenhouse pollution.

Rich countries, notably the United States, have said this gives developing countries an unfair economic advantage; China, India and other developing countries argue that developed countries have historically spewed more climate-warming gases, and developing countries need time to catch up.

The study suggests setting a uniform international cap on how much carbon dioxide each person could emit in order to limit global emissions; since rich people emit more, they are the ones likely to reach or exceed this cap, whether they live in a rich country or a poor one.

One wonders why they don’t look at the carbon footprint of Algore? He must easily have one of the largest carbon footprints of anyone alive as he runs around the world in his private jet and leaves the lights on in his large 14 bedroom mansion, which only he and his wife now live in (servants too I guess). Ms. Zabarenko also points out that the average carbon footprint is about 5 tons, but for Americans the average carbon footprint is 20 tons. Obviously the gist here is we have to make the evil Americans pay, after all they are responsible for all this gorebull warming.

I’m guessing that the Obama administration will be down with this proposal, I wonder if its too late to add it to the current Cap and Trade legislation. Get ready to pay up.

The new proposal for President Obama’s Lightbulb standards have been announced. Let’s add lightbulbs to the list of government intrusions that we’re now facing. President Obama, apparently not busy enough with Iran, North Korea, the Economy, Healthcare, the Mortgage Crisis, Iraq, or Afghanistan, has decided that new federal lighting standards also need to be part of the administrations agenda.

Now I’m all about being good stewards over this planet, and I’m not advocating simply wasting energy for the sake of wasting energy, but does anyone really think that it’s the role of the federal government to get involved in what kind of lightbulbs we use in our homes? Didn’t the government intrude enough when they began regulating how many gallons of water per flush a toilet can use? Aren’t liberals always claiming that government should stay out of the bedroom, but apparently it’s okay for them to peek into the bathroom?

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