Why Does the Much-Touted Climate Bill Look Like It Was Stolen From the Republican Playbook?

AlterNet by David Morris | Jun. 7, 2009 (News Analysis)
The new climate bill exemplifies a Republican approach: Don't tell polluters what to do, bribe them and hope they do what you want.

President Barack Obama has publicly described the bill as his and the Democrats' preferred alternative to regulation. Without the bill, he has threatened, the EPA will directly regulate greenhouse-gas emissions, a power it was given by the Supreme Court in 2007 and which it announced it would exercise in April 2009. Indeed, the bill specifically prohibits Obama's EPA from regulating these emissions.

The bill's carbon-cap-and-trade provisions are ... Full Story »

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Morris points out that Obama and many democrats are acting like republicans on the environment bill. He does not incorporate the reason behind it, that the energy corporations are funneling tons of money into political donations and own congress and possibly the president.

The people need publicly financed elections.

companies could satisfy the Act’s provisions without reducing greenhouse-gas emissions within the United States at all, by buying offsets from other countries that will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to monitor!

The plain truth is that the cap-and-trade provisions of the bill are ineffectual. They may even be pernicious because they would lock us into a convoluted and largely unworkable Republican-inspired global cap-and-trade architecture and a massive pollution permit giveaway program from which it will become increasingly difficult for us to extricate ourselves in the coming years.

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