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Kyoto McCain

John McCain has just lost the 2008 Election. Prepare all ye who live for the arrival of a hard-left Marxist president to be determined later. The next president will be either Obama or Clinton. Based on current trends, it will most likely Obama.

Why do I say that McCain has lost the election already? Simple: he is pushing the destruction of the American Economy in the name of Glbal Warming. He has bought into the fraud that the warming trend of the last several years is the fault of Man rather than the scientifically proven fact that the Earth’s climate is dynamic and influenced the most by solar activity. McCain, like Hillary, Obama, Leiberman, and many other politicians and self-serving elitists, have bought into Al Gore’s propaganda on carbon emissions hook, line and (non-lead) sinker.

From CNS News:

Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.

In remarks prepared for delivery Monday at a Portland, Ore., wind turbine manufacturer, the presidential contender says expanded nuclear power must be considered to reduce carbon-fuel emissions. He also sets a goal that by 2050, the country will reduce carbon emissions to a level 60 percent below that emitted in 1990.

Okay, I am an advocate of nuclear power. It’s great, clean and very efficient, especially if we get rid of the laws Jimmy Carter foisted on the U.S. banning the reprocessing of nuclear fuel rods. However nuclear energy, wind power, solar energy, etc. will not reduce our need for oil to fuel our economy and transportation system We can generate all the electricity we need via nuclear fusion until the Sun burns out billions of years from now, but that does not change the fact that we will still be using gasoline to move people and goods around the country and the world.

Letting the free-market is a great idea, and if we let it work, we will see great gains in many sectors, and even if we see great reductions in carbon emissions, it still will not change the Earth’s climate. The impact of Man on the climate is so small as to defy accurate measurement.

But wait, there’s more:

He also took a swipe at President Bush, who balked at the beginning of its term at signing the Kyoto global warming protocols. McCain said he would return to the negotiating table.

“I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears. I will not permit eight long years to pass without serious action on serious challenges. I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto. The United States will lead and will lead with a different approach — an approach that speaks to the interests and obligations of every nation,” he said.

Say what? Kyoto was a hackneyed treaty that would have castrated America’s economy and put a global tax that Americans would be forced to pay to other countries. It was a bad treaty no matter how you sliced-and-diced it, and Bush (not to mention his predecessor, Bill Clinton) showed great leadership by refusing to sign-off on Kyoto.

Kyoto was “claimed” by “dead-end diplomacy.” It was seen as the lousy piece of tripe that it is. Is McCain a Conservative Republican or a Liberal/Progressive Democrat? Does he really want to be the next President of the Greatest Nation on Earth, or does he want to sink into the abyss of irrelevance?

Worse, buried in the article is McCain’s plan to implement a “cap-and-trade” tax on industry:

McCain’s major solution is to implement a cap-and-trade program on carbon-fuel emissions, like a similar program in the Clean Air Act that was used to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions that triggered acid rain.

Industries would be given emission targets, and those coming in under their limit could sell their surplus polluting capacity to companies unable to meet their target.

And who will pick up the tab for these “emission credits?” Consumers. Working Americans. You and me, brother, but not Al Gore, as he’ll be making a ton of money off of these cap-and-trade schemes. Business has always passed their expenses onto the consumer. That’s how it works? Didn’t McCain learn that at some point in High School, like the rest of us did? As a “foot soldier in Reagan’s Army,” didn’t McCain learn anything about economics? Apparently not.

“As never before, the market would reward any person or company that seeks to invent, improve, or acquire alternatives to carbon-based energy,” he said. “More likely, however, there will be some companies that need extra emissions rights, and they will be able to buy them. The system to meet these targets and timetables will give these companies extra time to adapt — and that is good economic policy.”

Industry is able to achieve great things when government does what it should: get the heck out of the way and let them do what they do and innovate. Cap-and-trade schemes will only favor certain industry segments that push them (like how Al Gore pushes them for the benefit of his business, Generation Investment Management).

McCain believes that he can take the Conservative base of the GOP for granted. If he keeps this up, he’ll be in for an unpleasant surprise when the Media proclaims Obama the next Jimmy Carter of the United States. Maybe he can, afterall, who the heck else have we got to vote for?

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