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Carbon
Put It Away Before the EPA Finds It
Fri, 10/31/2008 - 2:03pm | posted by Michael O. Powell
This video is hilarious.
It reminds me a bit of an experience I had as a kid. I was at Wendy’s with my mom and a guy in front of us in the line was harassing the people working there. He kept asking them if they had video of them washing their hands, if they had been inspected, and threatened to contact someone to shut them down. He had apparently been there before and made the same threats for a long time. My mom and I both agreed that he was a monumental @$$hole.
Free Market fights CO2 levels
Thu, 07/19/2012 - 3:00pm | posted by Tom Knighton
The left loves to label free market types as enemies of Mother Earth. However, I’ve said for a while that the left should probably start looking at how the free market can actually help them attain their goals with regard to the environment. For example, many companies have adopted so-called “green” practices, not so much because of a social conscious, but because it allows them to position themselves as if they have a social conscious.
According to some data that isn’t exactly burning up the mainstream media, it looks like the free market is having a more direct impact on the environment, particularly with regard to CO2:
The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) June energy report says that energy-related carbon dioxide fell to 5,473 million metric tons (MMT) in 2011.
That’s down from a high of 6,020 MMT in 2007, and only a little above 1995’s level of 5,314 MMT.
Better yet, emissions in the first quarter of 2012 fell at an even faster rate — down 7.5% from the first quarter of 2011 and 8.5% from the same time in 2010. If the rest of 2012 follows its first-quarter trend, we may see total energy-related carbon dioxide emissions drop to early-1990s levels.
Awesome for the left, right? I mean, surely that means some of their efforts are starting to show results. Well, I wouldn’t be so sure. You see, Investors.com has another bit of data that should be considered:
Obama Lacks Votes to Pass Budget
Fri, 03/13/2009 - 11:10am | posted by Jason Pye
Barack Obama doesn’t have the votes to pass his $4 trillion budget:
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said he has spoken to enough colleagues about several different provisions in the budget request to make him think Congress won’t pass it.
Conrad urged White House budget director Peter Orszag not to “draw lines in the sand” with lawmakers, most notably on Obama’s plan for a cap-and-trade system to curb carbon emissions.
