George Rebane

First Fibber and Nobel Al are still telling everyone within earshot that Waxman-Markey is going to be a big boost to the economy as taxes and fees are slapped on every imagined and imaginable emission of CO2 into the atmosphere.  I mean, like aren’t we excited about all the green jobs coming to a neighborhood near you.  Here in Nevada County the local green cheerleader troupe already has their uniforms, and is practicing their routine.  These folks are more convinced than the tragic-comic Cargo Cult that carbon footprints can be reduced by hauling stuff sixty miles into the mountains, working on it, and then hauling it back down the mountain to the markets.

And for letting him stay four more years, Helicopter Ben will make sure that the dollars keep raining down to make all this “sustainable” once those cap n’ tax spigots are opened.

So, just as everything is shaping up for the final big push through Congress, Harvard professor, Robert Stavins, writes (here) in today’s WSJ –

… The move to greener power doesn’t have to be completed immediately, and it doesn’t have to be painful. The right transition plan will increase consumers’ bills gradually and modestly, and allow companies to make gradual, well-timed moves. …

Well, that admission is at least a start, but I’m not sure that anything will bend the True Believers from their march to the cliff.  Even Stavins, like all the other Waxman-Markey proponents, glosses over and avoids the economic and technical facts related to curbing carbon emissions to achieve the stated goals.  Steven Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute reminds us of the realities here.