Before You Get Too Carried Away On Believing A Climate Change Bill Is Over For Now
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Over the past few days the sources I follow about what’s going on in Washington, D.C. have been giving regular updates on the back-and-forth of whether something might be possible for the U.S. Senate to take up the Cap and Tax idea in their own legislative proposal. It has been interesting to watch the way that Senator Reid and others have been pointing at the Republicans and blaming them for all the things that the Democratically-dominated U.S. Senate can’t get done – including the legislation on climate change.
While this account in the Huffington Post would seem to offer some good news on how the effort to destroy the economy using Big Brother controls and government-stimulated energy costs increases – hold on, let’s not accept the possible demise of this ill-conceived idea until after January of 2011. If the U.S. Senate passes anything related to energy (probably not a very good idea for anyone who treasures free enterprise) the likely outcome will be a “conference” of some type between what the House passed (Cap and Tax) and whatever the Senate might pass. That would probably be on the docket for a lame-duck, post election session of Congress.
We know that with the bunch of folks leading this Congress, rules don’t mean anything (except if you’re looking for an excuse to blame somebody else for the votes you can’t get because the ideas that are being considered really stink)…so you could easily end up with whatever Obama, Reid and Pelosi want. Is it that long ago to remember what was carried out through the Health Payment legislative process?
Along with keeping an eye on the details that emerge in legislative discussions for a Senate energy proposal, we also need to recognize that those who want to use the power of the federal government to further erode the affordability of necessary energy supplies will continue to work at bringing some type of tax and control package forward – using the scientific theory of climate change as their excuse.
Over the past few days the sources I follow about what’s going on in Washington, D.C. have been giving regular updates on the back-and-forth of whether something might be possible for the U.S. Senate to take up the Cap and Tax idea in their own legislative proposal. It has been interesting to watch the way that Senator Reid and others have been pointing at the Republicans and blaming them for all the things that the Democratically-dominated U.S. Senate can’t get done – including the legislation on climate change.
While this account in the Huffington Post would seem to offer some good news on how the effort to destroy the economy using Big Brother controls and government-stimulated energy costs increases – hold on, let’s not accept the possible demise of this ill-conceived idea until after January of 2011. If the U.S. Senate passes anything related to energy (probably not a very good idea for anyone who treasures free enterprise) the likely outcome will be a “conference” of some type between what the House passed (Cap and Tax) and whatever the Senate might pass. That would probably be on the docket for a lame-duck, post election session of Congress.
We know that with the bunch of folks leading this Congress, rules don’t mean anything (except if you’re looking for an excuse to blame somebody else for the votes you can’t get because the ideas that are being considered really stink)…so you could easily end up with whatever Obama, Reid and Pelosi want. Is it that long ago to remember what was carried out through the Health Payment legislative process?
Along with keeping an eye on the details that emerge in legislative discussions for a Senate energy proposal, we also need to recognize that those who want to use the power of the federal government to further erode the affordability of necessary energy supplies will continue to work at bringing some type of tax and control package forward – using the scientific theory of climate change as their excuse.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 7/23/2010 2:17 PM 
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Cap and Trade U.S Senate Energy Taxes Climate Change
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Cap and Trade U.S Senate Energy Taxes Climate Change
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