Geography Is Dividing Democrats Over Energy

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/science/earth/27coal.html

Geography Is Dividing Democrats Over Energy

By JOHN M. BRODER
Published: January 26, 2009

WASHINGTON — President Obama is moving quickly to act on the environmental promises that were a centerpiece of his campaign. But tackling global warming will be far more difficult — and more costly — than the new emissions standards for automobiles he ordered with the stroke of a pen on Monday.

Already, the Congressional Democrats Mr. Obama will need to carry out his mandate are feuding with one another.

By coincidence or design, most of the policy makers on Capitol Hill and in the administration charged with shaping legislation to address global warming come from California or the East Coast, regions that lead the country in environmental regulation and the push for renewable energy sources.

That is a problem, says a group of Democratic lawmakers from the Midwest and Plains States, which are heavily dependent on coal and manufacturing. The lawmakers have banded together to fight legislation they think might further damage their economies.

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[The2ndWheel]

1. Yet in a globalized world geography can't matter

Everything has to be done the same way everywhere.

[Nihil]

2. SNAFU

> Already, the Congressional Democrats Mr. Obama will need to carry
> out his mandate are feuding with one another.

> That is a problem, says a group of Democratic lawmakers from the
> Midwest and Plains States, which are heavily dependent on coal and
> manufacturing. The lawmakers have banded together to fight legislation
> they think might further damage their economies.

:banghead:

[excess_3]

3. Cal. could pass laws enacting the limits of the Kyoto treaty

but has not.

shame on California