WH Says No Change on Carbon Strategy: No limits on greenhouse gas

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/Reuters: White House Says No Change on Carbon Strategy
By REUTERS
Published: September 28, 2006

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Bush administration has no plans to ease its opposition to national limits on greenhouse gas output despite talk that a change may be under consideration, a White House spokeswoman said on Thursday.

"The president has said continually said that one of reasons he doesn't like a mandated cap is because it has the potential to move jobs overseas and hurt the economy,'' said Kristin Hellmer, spokeswoman for James Connaughton, the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Growing concerns about global warming have prompted California, Arizona and seven Northeastern states to take steps to bypass President George W. Bush and set their own greenhouse limits.

Bush pulled out of the 163-nation Kyoto Protocol on global warming in 2001, saying it would hurt the economy and unfairly left rapidly developing countries like China and India without limits on emissions.

A national cap on emissions would mean heavy industries in the United States, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, might have to make big decisions, like investing in alternative energy or clean-burning natural gas....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-environment-carbon-whitehouse.html

[okoboji]

1. :.....the potential to move jobs overseas and hurt the economy......"

so now they are against out sourcing?

I am confused?

[rodeodance]

5. it anything, having a good energy policy would vitalize out economy as

it would put researchers, scientists, workers. technicians together in a national program.

[gulfcoastliberal]

13. Precisely - Kyoto, et al would CREATE good jobs and boost the economy

All those workers building light rail and other mass transit systems, workers designing and building hi-tech pollution controls, etc. They just lie through their teth, those mofos.

[and-justice-for-all]

8. If your confused, then their propaganda is working...

...The entire Repuke party works like that; they make NO SENCE whats-so-ever all of the time and yet people still support these dumbasses. They are all about out sourcing and putting a cap on CO2 emissions has nothing to do with outsourcing jobs over seas...shurbCo is a fucking moron.

[stepnw1f]

2. People Love Cancer

Nothing like waking up in the morning to a cloud of smog.... inhale... exhale... ahhhhhh. All for the wealthy to prosper while we work like slaves for peanuts just to pay off high medical bills to remove that very Cancer. Isn't great being American!

[Rose Siding]

3. Why not? What's to stop them?

[ck4829]

4. Jobs moving overseas is a concern that this White House has?

I'm confused, when did they change their position on this?

[Supersedeas]

14. I guess even more jobs that what they consider acceptable

[Lindacooks]

6. As opposed to having the seas moving over our jobs??

Hey, if the coastlines are under water, there won't be any jobs, you effing chimp.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. Don't hurt our "economy" - f*ck the environment instead - good thinking GW

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Your economy is sinking

Ya might want clean air to breathe when your filtered air conditioner conks out in Crawford Texas as it fries with global warming.

We still got some clean air up here in Northern Canada,

But I don't think you'd be welcome up here.

Or anywhere for that matter . . . . .

[sakabatou]

21. GOP: Enviromental Fuckers

[SpiralHawk]

9. "This would have interfered with our oil profiteering" - Commander AWOL

"Me and my 'elite' republicon oil cronies cannot be expected to suffer any kind of a reduction in our massive oil profites. So all you ordinary people can just shut up and sit down while the global climate goes shithouse."

- Commander AWOL

[Uncle Joe]

17. I agree SpiralHawk

I don't believe Bush gives a rat's ass about the general national economy, the environment or the people. To say he sucks is to say a paramecium is small.

[Vinca]

10. Lou Dobbs had a guest on the other night who said

Shrub's environmental guru is Michael Crichton. The guest was serious.

[donkeyotay]

20. It's unbelievable. He ignores all scientists and has a GOP sci-fi

writer as a consultant an a minor little issue like planetary sustainability. Kissinger should be in jail, but no...this unelected creep was such a success with Vietnam that he's back advising for Iraq. What a nightmare this all is. How anyone can still support such stunning incompetence is beyond me.

[Vidar]

11. Gospel of Bush: Greenouse gases cost jobs, not outsourcing.

[hatrack]

12. Gosh, what a shocker!

Who could have guessed THIS?

:eyes:

[antonialee839]

15. He's staying the course. Can you blame him?

It's working so well in Iraq.

[OneBlueSky]

16. this country is being run by idiots . . . n/t

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[fshrink]

18. Strategy? This is not a strategy, it's the absence of one.

[eppur_se_muova]

19. We're winning at Russian Roulette -- let's play a few more rounds! nt