Palin WaPo editorial on energy slamming cap and trade

[kristopher]

Now we know it is the right way to go; if Sarah thinks it is a bad plan, it must be good. - K

The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End

By Sarah Palin
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.

Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:

I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.

American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071302852_pf.html

[Hello_Kitty]

1. She so did not write that.

BTW, Sarah, the reason that the recovery won't bring as many jobs as you think it should is because there were too many tax cuts and not enough projects that created jobs.

[secondwind]

2. isn't there a law against people putting their name to something they DID NOT write? n/t

[Skittles]

6. it's probably her speech-writer

[Raschel]

3. She IS the chattering class, bickering thru the media with Levi, Letterman and

anyone else who mentions her name. She cannot let one comment go unanswered, and now she's back to taunting again.

Whoever wrote this piece did Palin no favors by putting in the sarcastic comment about the "chattering class".

She'll be whining again in a couple of days about all of the unfair criticism.

[Old and In the Way]

4. The deep thoughts of a governor whose state should be called

'The People's Republic of Alaska'. If Big Oil didn't underwrite the State budget (along with a net positive cash infusion from the federal government), her inability to govern would have been exposed a long time ago.

Now, lets see her discuss the pros and cons of energy policy in a public forum. Also.

[excess_3]

5. how much extra should the poor be forced to pay for electricity?

[kristopher]

7. Give me a fucking break.

The price of electricity in real terms has declined from 12 cents a kilowatt hour to about 10 cents a kilowatt hour between 1930 and today. We need a new system because the present one is poisoning the planet. If it causes the *average* price to rise back to 12 cents (or even 15) for a little while during the transition then that is something the "poor" and every one else is just going to have to suck in their gut and live with.

Whether your issue is energy security, particulate pollution or climate change, the future of fossil fuels is clear, we can't afford to NOT end their use. We do not have enough resources to meet our needs no matter how much we are willing to pollute; so perhaps you can tell me how much concern for the "poor" (as if you gave a rats ass about the needs of the poor) will prevent petroleum spiking to $8 dollars a gallon or electricity shooting through the roof as everyone bids for the dwindling coal and petroleum resources of the world?

Or perhaps you have a plan to keep the other 6 billion people on this planet living in energy poverty so this scenario doesn't occur? What are you going to do, poison them with depleted uranium and plutonium as you spread nuclear reactors around the world in the hopes that you can generate WW3.

[excess_3]

8. How about a cap on economic damage to the US?

Cap and trade creates JOBS !!!!!
but not in the US.
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how does , killing off a cement plant in the US,
really help? More than likely, it will be torn apart and shipped somewhere else,
where it will pollute at least as much as it does now, plus all the extra
transportation of shipping the cement to the US.
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>The price of electricity in real terms has declined from 12<
all that is residential price, wholesale electricity is typically
4 c in the winter, more in the summer.
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<petroleum spiking to $8 dollars<
I am a big advocate of the electric car, so I am concerned about electricity.
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>dwindling coal<
not in the lifetime of anybody alive today..
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>other 6 billion people on this planet living in energy poverty <
as I have stated many times, I believe all of humanity deserves
access to electricity. Sending the money of the poor in the US to
rich people in poor countries, does not help.
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how much sacrifice do you expect?
what bothers me is that there is no cap on economic
damage to the US.
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I appreciate your thoughts, BTW.