Dunce Caps and Tax

Chicago-area Dem Rep. Dan Lipinski was one of the yes votes. Pat Hickey gives him the heave-ho. Read it all. Shown here with his partner in crime, Mark Kirk.

More on cap and tax, David Harsanyi, Denver Post, in eco-Colorado, on the House efforts:

It passed a "cap and trade" bill that would ration energy, destroy productive jobs, levy the largest tax increase in United States history and, for kicks, penalize foreign trade partners who fail to engage in comparable economic suicide.

The bill forces up electricity costs and will lead to real hardship here--increased food prices and starvation in some areas of the world. Robert Zubrin, Roll Call:

To get a sense of what it would mean for farmers to abandon fertilizer, it is only necessary to go to the supermarket and compare the price of the “organic” produce, grown without chemical fertilizer, to the regular produce, which, while just as nutritious, typically costs less than half as much. It is one thing for wealthy organic food buffs to voluntarily pay such high prices for their food — that is their right. But to impose such costs for basic groceries on everyone else, and particularly the poor, as part of a largely symbolic effort to try to change the weather, is self-indulgent in the extreme.

Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe--yes, there is still a debate:

Closer to home, the noted physicist Hal Lewis (emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara) e-mails me a copy of a statement he and several fellow scientists, including physicists Will Happer and Robert Austin of Princeton, Laurence Gould of the University of Hartford, and climatologist Richard Lindzen of MIT, have sent to Congress. “The sky is not falling,’’ they write. Far from warming, “the Earth has been cooling for 10 years’’ - a trend that “was not predicted by the alarmists’ computer models.’’

And Al Gore, preaching carbon doom, living the carbon high-life. Dance of the cap and tax dunces. Say no to this in the Senate folks, or we'll see the death of the American dream.