Not Such A Great Deal After All
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Over the past week or so I’ve had the chance to get some additional information on how the “fix” of our climate through the effort by our elected leaders in Washington, D.C. is really nothing more than an example of “we must do something” and that “something” is probably going to accomplish nothing more than destroying our economy and standard of living.
For a while it seemed that American agriculture might be beneficiaries of this misguided idea that we can tax ourselves for energy use and save the planet doing it. As more details emerge we’re seeing that the “Kool-Aid” might not be so tasty or good for us afterall.
Using the models and the numbers from the United Nation’s “science group” that maintains the world is “steaming” its way to global destruction, Kimball Rasmussen, President and CEO of Deseret Power has done the math and found that a complete overhaul of the U.S. Power sector would only delay seven hundredths of one degree Celsius of warming in the next 100 years.
Instead of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee trying to rework the Waxman-Markey legislative proposal (H.R. 2454) to benefit farmers and ranchers, the best approach would and should be to benefit the entire country by keeping the legislation from going forward.
Our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. need to hear from you and they need to understand that our best solution for a healthy planet is having a healthy economy. Further destroying our country’s economic health or further empowering the environmental command and control crowd are not solutions which should be considered. Voting in favor of such actions will be pointed out and remembered.
Over the past week or so I’ve had the chance to get some additional information on how the “fix” of our climate through the effort by our elected leaders in Washington, D.C. is really nothing more than an example of “we must do something” and that “something” is probably going to accomplish nothing more than destroying our economy and standard of living.
For a while it seemed that American agriculture might be beneficiaries of this misguided idea that we can tax ourselves for energy use and save the planet doing it. As more details emerge we’re seeing that the “Kool-Aid” might not be so tasty or good for us afterall.
Using the models and the numbers from the United Nation’s “science group” that maintains the world is “steaming” its way to global destruction, Kimball Rasmussen, President and CEO of Deseret Power has done the math and found that a complete overhaul of the U.S. Power sector would only delay seven hundredths of one degree Celsius of warming in the next 100 years.
Instead of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee trying to rework the Waxman-Markey legislative proposal (H.R. 2454) to benefit farmers and ranchers, the best approach would and should be to benefit the entire country by keeping the legislation from going forward.
Our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. need to hear from you and they need to understand that our best solution for a healthy planet is having a healthy economy. Further destroying our country’s economic health or further empowering the environmental command and control crowd are not solutions which should be considered. Voting in favor of such actions will be pointed out and remembered.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 6/8/2009 9:17 AM 
Categories: Climate Change
Tags: Waxman-Markey Global Warming Cap and Trade
Categories: Climate Change
Tags: Waxman-Markey Global Warming Cap and Trade
You're getting good Doug! You should syndicate your blog to the papers!
Barb
SaveRNVanimals.org
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