House passes 'global warming' legislation...

Is Germany ready to step up? You are now the world leader. Try not to execute too many people.

HOUSE PASSES 'GLOBAL WARMING' LEGISLATION...

[nikimcbee]

God save us all. I wonder how my industry is going to handle this? A semiconductor fab uses a hellva large amount of eletricity. I'll laugh my ass off, if every semiconductor company moves to India/China. That will wipe out the economy on the West Coast. Case in point: My former place of employment was the largest employer in the county (outside of working for local Gov't). The city/county fought them at every turn when they wanted to expand production, because of they're greenie-marxist ideology. The company decided it was time to close it's US fab and shut down last Aug. It was priceless to hear the local news bitch and moan about the millions of tax dollars that were now... no longer going to be coming in.


HA!HA! You @#!$$#@ing greenies are morons. and you get what you deserve for voting that jackass(es) in to office.



I need a drink

[SteamWake]

Dont give up hope yet. It still has to pass the senate.

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Dont give up hope yet. It still has to pass the senate.

This is the worst of the worst....legislating poverty.

[geetrue]

New York Times

Only eight Republicans voted for the bill, which runs to more than 1,300 pages.

In the months of horse-trading leading to Friday’s vote, the bill’s targets for emissions were weakened, its mandate for renewable electricity was scaled back, and incentives for various industries from automobiles to natural gas were sweetened.

The bill grants a majority of the permits free in the early years of the program, to keep costs low. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the average American household would pay an additional $175 a year in energy costs by 2020 as a result of the provision, while the poorest households would end up with $40 in rebates.

The bill also sets a national standard of 20 percent for the production of renewable electricity by 2020, although a third of that could be met with efficiency measures rather than renewable energy sources like solar, wind and geothermal.

It also devotes billions of dollars to new energy projects and subsidies for low-carbon agricultural practices, clean-coal research and electric vehicle development.

How do you read 1,300 pages in just a few hours ... give US a break.

[UnderseaLcpl]

“I look forward to spending the next 100 years trying to fix this legislation,” said California Republican Brian Bilbray.

That about sums it up. Take it from a Californian, they've been there, done that, messed it all up, and ruined their state. Hopefully, the Senate will kill this thing.

What really perturbs me is how immune the dems are to empyrical evidence. Nearly a century of catastrophic failures by big government has done nothing to weaken their resolve.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

every semiconductor company moves to India/China.

This will exactly be the results seeing as those contries arent silly enough to follow the US and besides there exempt from this.

[SteamWake]

Good god !

Republicans accused the Democrats of ramming the bill through the House. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), managing the debate for his party, asked repeatedly if there was even a copy of the current version of the bill anywhere in the House chamber. Democratic Rep. Ellen Tauscher – sitting in the speaker’s chair although she’s already been confirmed as Obama’s undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security — repeatedly dodged the question.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24232.html