re: #322 sngnsgt

WASHINGTON — If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.

She says there’s a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation’s children.

Really? How did they come up with the ‘millions’ figure?….

The more I think about it, the more I see cap and trade as not just a handy way of taxing the shit out of all things fossil-fuel, but as a big thumb trying to gouge out the eyes of red states like Alaska, Texas or Wyoming and shifting whatever jobs that would be created to blue states like California or New York.