Cap’n Palin
Posted on July 14th, 2009
by Clark Stooksbury |
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Sarah Palin has an op-ed column in The Washington Post about the cap-and-trade plan recently passed by the house. Unsurprisingly, she has little of value to add to the subject. Palin doesn’t even seem to be aware that the purpose of the legislation is to control carbon emissions driving global warming—she mentions America’s “abundant coal.”
Glenn Reynolds noted the Palin article, but almost certainly didn’t read it at 3:28 am. He cryptically adds “Guess she’s not vanishing into the Alaska wilderness . . . .” I’m sure elitist liberals everywhere are shaking in their boots.
Filed under: Conservatism, media
The bill will do nothing to reduce carbon emissions in the next several decades and it gives a lot of money to various politically-important groups. Given what the bill will actually do, it’s better to describe it as a give-away to important business interests than as a environmental bill. It’s a corporate welfare bill, not a carbon-reduction bill.
If Palin is “unaware that the purpose of the legislation is to control carbon emissions driving global warming,” then her ignorance has somehow managed to allow her to see the bill for what it really is.
You may or may not be right, but you understand the purpose of the legislation. whoever wrote the column that went out under Palin’s name, clearly did not.
Mr Stooksbury, your input is very valuable, but we would wonder if you are understanding Palin’s point.
CVD attempted to make the point, that perhaps some of us are missing.
The US absolutely has the BEST track record for environment, and we can work domestically to make it better, to be an example for the world. But the trick that Obama is foisting onto the american public, and indeed the world, would make it WORSE.
How will driving our manufacturing and energy production overseas make the world a betterplace? Did you miss that part of what Palin said?
Cap-and-trade will not help the environment because the worldwide level of emissions is not going to decrease without cooperation from China and India. That ain’t gonna happen.
The legislation is just going to impose additional costs on US businesses and encourage production in lower cost places. The road to hell is paved with green intentions.