Democrats say Cap and Trade is a big tax

AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Al Gore & John Warner

 Are you ready for your electricity bill to double?

Are you ready for your Natural Gas bill to double?

This is what the Democrat policy of “Cap and Trade” will do to you, and all that money is going to go to the Federal Government.

This week Al Gore lied to congress. In his testimony he said at one point, "It's going to save you money, and it's going to make the economy stronger,". Please remember this statement when in some not so distant January you read stories about children wearing two coats inside their homes because their average Middle American parents cannot afford the heating bill. Gore states at one point it would only cost the average family 18 cents more to implement both a carbon tax and Cap and trade policies. Right. The numbers that old Al was basing that on came from a paper that assumed that the United States would double the number of Nuclear power plants that it currently has; which is obviously not the case as environmentalists have stopped the production of any nuclear facilities completely.

According to the GPO and the Congressional Record, the real cost of Cap and Trade will mean about 3000$ more in energy costs a year for the average American family. This column cannot quote you Democrat numbers, because the democrats have not published any estimates, other than Al’s “less than a postage stamp” comment . The brunt of this hideous new tax is going to be borne by those living in the areas of the United States with the greatest extremes in temperature. In summer that will be the south from coast to coast. In winter, the Midwest where freezing temperatures is the norm.

Can you afford 3000$ more in a power bill that in reality is caused by government taxation? Are you ready to tell your kids that you can’t turn the heat on because you don’t have the money for the bill? Well, if these policies pass congress, you might want to get a line prepared now, and buy a whole lot of blankets.

Democrats are well aware of what Cap and Trade is and means to us, the average Joe/Jane on Main street. This clip of Mr. Dingell (D) Michigan shows that they are very clearly aware of it:

Another thing to consider; what the sun is doing right now? Not much to be exact. We are in the middle of a sun cycle where there are few if any sunspots, and the sun is a couple of years behind on starting a new cycle. What does this mean? Well, if history is any indicator, and in reality it’s the only measurement we know of for certain, this is a repeat of the Maunder Minimum. What exactly is that? According to Encyclopedia.com :

“Maunder minimum The period from 1645 to 1715 when scarcely any sunspots or aurorae were seen. E. W.Maunder (and, before him, G. F. W.Spörer) concluded that there had been a real decline in solar activity then. Further evidence for the Maunder minimum is provided by an increased carbon-14 content in tree rings during that period, since the cosmic rays that produce carbon-14 reach the Earth in greater numbers when the Sun's activity is low. There was also a lengthy cold spell on the Earth from 1550 to 1700, known as the Little Ice Age, which, roughly corresponds to a period including the Maunder minimum and the earlier Spörer minimum. This cold period could be explained by a decrease in solar output of about 1%.”

This is exactly what we are seeing right now. An increase in atmospheric Carbon to create the C-14 – which the Environmental profiteers like Al Gore (more on this in a moment) are so vociferously decrying doom and gloom about, and a lack of Sun Spots. What comes next is the lengthy cold spell, and that is according to all indicators in history, on the way. It is being felt now already, where just this month, snowstorms blanketed Colorado in a couple of feet of unseasonably deep snow. According to noted climatologists, the planet’s weather is cooling, not warming, and has been for several years. According to Jeff Poor for Business and Media  Jay Lehr, a senior fellow and Science Director at the Heartland Institute  is quoted saying:

“[I] think more importantly it is to look at the sun’s output, and in recent years, we’ve seen very, very low sunspot activity, and we are definitely – in my mind – not only in a cooling period, we’re going to be staying in it for a couple decades,”

In an interview with CNN’s Lou Dobbs, Joseph D’Aleo the executive director of International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP) when asked by Dobbs if he “quibbled” with NOAA’s data – largely collected in urban areas – he replied:

“Yes, I do, In fact, if you look at the satellite data, which is the most reliable data, the best coverage of the globe – 2008 was the 14th coldest in 30 years. That doesn’t jibe with the tenth warmest in 159 years in the Hadley data set or 113 or 114 years in the NOAA set.”

D’Aleo is part of a group that believes

“a lot of the research promoting the theory of anthropogenic or manmade climate change is too short-sighted.” (Qtd in Poor).

Lehr goes further to say;

“In Europe they started carbon cap and trade in 2005. They’ve had no reduction in greenhouse gases, but a 5 percent to 10 percent increase in the [cost of] standard of living. We don’t want to go that route.”

And now back to Al Gore and the Global warming- tax Carbon mafia and his testimony before congress:

“Rep. Blackburn: …You talked a little about [that] people have to have trust in what you’re doing and I think you know that this bill is going to fundamentally change the way America works and it’s going to effect families. We’ve all talked about how it affects individuals and what it’s going to do to their budgets and… ah… what it’s going to do to jobs in this country. And given the magnitude of those changes, I think it’s really important that no suspicion or shadow fall on the foremost advocates of climate change legislation. So I wanted to give you the opportunity to kind of clear the air about your motives and to set the record straight about your motives for some of your former constituents. And I’ve got an article from [the] October 8 [2008] New York Times Magazine about a firm called Kleiner Perkins… a capital firm called Kleiner Perkins. Are you aware of that company?

Al Gore: Well, yes. I’m a partner at Kleiner Perkins.

Rep. Blackburn: So you’re a partner in Kleiner Perkins. OK. Now they have invested about a billion dollars in 40 companies that are going to benefit from cap-and-trade legislation. So is the legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from?

Al Gore: [Sigh]… I believe that the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us. And I have invested in it. But every penny that I have made, I have put right into a nonprofit, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to spread awareness of why we have to take on this challenge. And, Congresswoman, if you’re… if you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don’t know me.”

Al Gore ducked the question and lied by omission. What he doesn’t say is: he isn’t donating his profits from Kleiner Perkins the CAPITAL firm. According to a November 20, 2007 article by CNN's Adam Lashinsky, Al’s profits, which are taxed at a much lower rate than a salary, stand to be far larger than any salary. He may be giving away his salary to the non-profit he founded and is the chairman of The Alliance for Climate Protection, but he is keeping the profits.

Al is  indeed going to profit from Cap and Trade, and is  making millions of dollars a year in support of this taxation and keeping this made up issue alive. This is what Al does for a living now a days, he works for the Cap and Trade - Carbon Tax Lobby, in other words big business.

What makes this a civil rights issue? Well if you believe in the junk science of anthropomorphic Global warming and believe that it is your civic duty to pay more and more tax to a government that will funnel those tax dollars to big business, then it has nothing to do with civil rights.

If you believe that the Government is literally making up an issue by which it can impose more taxes upon you and your family, then it is indeed a Civil Rights issue. The Government should have no ability to levy such taxation on Americans for reasons that are literally made up of thin air.

Al Gore is wrong, the planet is not warming, but he wants you to think it is because it benefits him and his friends. Capping Carbon or taxing it will not lower Greenhouse gasses of which CO2 only makes up less than 4% of greenhouse gas, Water vapor making up 90% which we have no control over. Europe has already proved that. China and India are on the record according to Hillary Clinton, they are not going to do any such Capping or taxation of Energy in their countries, they believe it will cost their economies too much.

If Al gets his way, and the Obama administration gets its way, they will levy a huge burden onto the American Family increasing the cost of energy in a time where global temperatures are dropping, and the need for affordable energy is going to become acute. What we will get is an impossibly high Government tax creating much higher energy bills, and naturally lower winter temperatures increasing demand, all of which drives energy prices up, and pile-drives an already hurting ecomomy straight down into a ditch it will take decades to recover from. But liars like Al Gore will get rich.

Are we willing to allow this? Contact your congressman today and let them know that this shell game is over; it’s your civil right to do so. Given the potential costs at stake, one might even call it a civic duty.