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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wayout on August 25, 2008, 07:29:35 AM
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Interesting column by George Will on Obama's vision for the future of energy.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080825/OPINION03/808250336 (http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080825/OPINION03/808250336)
A few quotes from the article.
"For conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing. Obama seems to believe that if a particular outcome is desirable, one can see how to require it. But how does that work? Details to follow, sometime after noon, Jan. 20, 2009."
"Obama has also promised that "we will get 1 million 150-mile-per-gallon plug-in hybrids on our roads within six years." What a tranquilizing verb "get" is. This senator, whose has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, is going to get a huge, complex industry to produce, and is going to get a million consumers to buy, these cars. How? Almost certainly by federal financial incentives for both -- billions of dollars of tax subsidies for automakers, and billions more to bribe customers to buy these cars they otherwise would spurn."
"Where will the electricity for these million cars come from? Not nuclear power. And not anywhere else, if Obama means this: "I will set a hard cap on all carbon emissions at a level that scientists say is necessary to curb global warming -- an 80 percent reduction by 2050."
"No he won't. Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute notes that in 2050 there will be 420 million Americans -- 40 million more households. So Obama's cap would require reducing per capita carbon emissions to levels probably below even those "in colonial days when the only fuel we burned was wood."
As Bud Gregg once said "A Taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders."
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As Bud Gregg once said "A Taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders."
Sig material right there! :aok :rofl
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is going to get a huge, complex industry to produce, and is going to get a million consumers to buy, these cars. How? Almost certainly by federal financial incentives for both -- billions of dollars of tax subsidies for automakers, and billions more to bribe customers to buy these cars they otherwise would spurn."
You're talking about something of which you have no clue. :aok
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To be a liberal, it is mandatory that your
ideology must overrule your common sense...
Great post :aok
RC