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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Of course not. In the words of that German guy on the Laugh In show form the 70's- "I know nothing, I hear nothing, I see nothing" - and if someone says something that raises a question, I don't know them. 
O.k., I can agree with "first step", but that is not what I understood your point to be at first. |
ace.....at least 15 states have sued the Bush EPA to enforce the CAA emission standards.
In a
debate between the candidates' surrogates, Grumet did represent Obama and
evidently said Obama will enforce the law w/o political interference (how refreshing would that be!) as part of a broad discussion on energy/climate change solutions.....I detect a bit of cherry picking on the part of Bloomberg and the WSJ editorial
Grumet is also the exec director of the
bi-partisan National Commission on Energy Policy which is tasked with providing Congress with a "consensus" proposal.
The report of the
National Commission on Energy Policy that has been sitting for several years could very well serve as a discussion doc for deliberations by the next Congress...or perhaps it wont, who knows?
And no, I havent read it.
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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
My generally libertarian leanings aside, gotta go with will on this one. Climate change isn't an economic issue and the amount of pollution we're using (and the associated resources we're burning doing it) has got to be dealt with sooner rather than later. I think it'd be sheer folly to ignore it for another 4 or 8 years like we have been.
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No energy/environmental policy can ignore potential economic outcomes or consequences or it will never garner wide spread support.
Which is why a bi-partisan group of experts, like the National Commission on Energy Policy, was created....to recommend comprehensive solutions that could achieve consensus....
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to counteract the "screamers" who demagogue the issue with statements like "Obama will declare CO2 a dangerous pollutant" as opposed to "Obama will enforce the Clean Air Act as part of a more comprehensive and economically sustainable solution."