Comments on: Obama Releases Half an Energy Plan http://understory.ran.org/2007/05/07/obama-releases-half-an-energy-plan/ The Understory is the official blog of Rainforest Action Network. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:08:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom http://understory.ran.org/2007/05/07/obama-releases-half-an-energy-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-94254 Tom Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:53:55 +0000 http://understory.ran.org/2007/05/07/obama-releases-half-an-energy-plan/#comment-94254 I doubt you could find a single "reputable" PHD on the planet that didn't agree carbon emmission are increasing global warming. (Maybe there are hordes of republican Psychology PHDs that don't know what their talking about) You're a loony tune. I doubt you could find a single “reputable” PHD on the planet that didn’t agree carbon emmission are increasing global warming. (Maybe there are hordes of republican Psychology PHDs that don’t know what their talking about)

You’re a loony tune.

]]> By: Xorthfred http://understory.ran.org/2007/05/07/obama-releases-half-an-energy-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-87895 Xorthfred Tue, 08 May 2007 22:17:38 +0000 http://understory.ran.org/2007/05/07/obama-releases-half-an-energy-plan/#comment-87895 After looking at Obama's plan, I am sure that it will result in a slightly lower standard of living for everyone (especially in the hated region encompassing Louisiana, Texas, Alaska, Arkansas and Oklahoma). It discourages domestic oil exploration and production, which is a favorite way to keep gasoline and heating oil prices high. Since hordes of PhD.s from Princeton to Cal Berkeley to MIT to Colorado State etc. etc. agree that carbon emissions do not cause global warming, no carbon tax could save the planet. However, replacing that one million barrels per day of oil that would now be flowing from northern Alaska (killed by a Clinton veto in 1996 because it would hurt the caribou population and take ten years to reach full production anyway) with petrodollars to Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia could possibly doom the planet, for sure. Encouraging lower fuel emissions now is like the government giving tax incentives to encourage cell phone use in the year 2003, meaningless because social and market forces are encouraging higher miles per gallon anyway. After looking at Obama’s plan, I am sure that it will result in a slightly lower standard of living for everyone (especially in the hated region encompassing Louisiana, Texas, Alaska, Arkansas and Oklahoma). It discourages domestic oil exploration and production, which is a favorite way to keep gasoline and heating oil prices high. Since hordes of PhD.s from Princeton to Cal Berkeley to MIT to Colorado State etc. etc. agree that carbon emissions do not cause global warming, no carbon tax could save the planet. However, replacing that one million barrels per day of oil that would now be flowing from northern Alaska (killed by a Clinton veto in 1996 because it would hurt the caribou population and take ten years to reach full production anyway) with petrodollars to Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia could possibly doom the planet, for sure. Encouraging lower fuel emissions now is like the government giving tax incentives to encourage cell phone use in the year 2003, meaningless because social and market forces are encouraging higher miles per gallon anyway.

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