Pelosi, Obama and Reid are quite amused at how stupid American voters are.

Starting with the passage of the unread Porkulus Bill, the lying and misdirection attendant with the Death Care bill, and the last minute unread INSERTION of 300 pages of amendments to the passage of the Cap & Trade Grand Larceny in the house, we now get the following from the Oil Refiners and Producers.

Big Oil’s Answer to Carbon Law May Be Fuel Imports

June 26 (Bloomberg) — America’s biggest oil companies will probably cope with U.S. carbon legislation by closing fuel plants, cutting capital spending and increasing imports.

Under the Waxman-Markey climate bill that may be voted on today by the U.S. House, refiners would have to buy allowances for carbon dioxide spewed from their plants and from vehicles when motorists burn their fuel. Imports would need permits only for the latter, which ConocoPhillips Chief Executive Officer Jim Mulva said would create a competitive imbalance.[snip]

Reliance on Imports

Refiners and brokers already import 3.12 million barrels of gasoline, diesel and other fuels each day, enough to supply every car, truck, train, airplane, boat and oil-burning power plant in Africa, U.S. Energy Department figures showed.

Those cargoes are in addition to the 9.76 million barrels of raw crude delivered to U.S. ports daily to supply refineries and chemicals plants. Foreign shipments of crude, gasoline and other fuels provide 66 percent of the petroleum burned in the world’s largest economy, according to the Energy Department.

Carbon prices will soar as U.S. refiners compete with each other and other industrial companies for a limited number of allowances, said Bill Durbin, head of carbon research and global energy markets at Wood Mackenzie.

Durbin, a former policy official in the Energy Department during the George H.W. Bush administration, said permit prices may top $100 a ton. Oil companies and their products emit more than 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year in the U.S., according to the Energy Department.

“If you can import fuels without the same carbon costs as domestic refiners, you will have an advantage,” Durbin said. “Does that open the door for offshore refiners? I think it does.”

 According to the MALEFACTORS in Congress, this Cap & Trade Bill will reduce our dependence on foreign imports. Of course it will.

In a pig’s ass, which is a huge pork!

Remember, businesses don’t pay taxes; they passes them through to the consumer as higher costs which result in higher sales taxes to you also, SUCKERS! 

Liberals never seem to understand this.

I guess the Bamster isn’t quite on the same page as the rest of the choir, or even in the same church mosque.

Europe leans right as voters choose EU Parliament

BRUSSELS – Europe was leaning to the right Sunday as tens of millions of people voted in European Parliament elections, with conservative parties favored in many countries against a backdrop of economic crisis.

Opinion polling showed right-leaning governments with edges over their opposition in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium and elsewhere. Conservative opposition parties were tied or ahead in Britain, Spain and some smaller countries. [snip]

Paybacks really ARE a bitch.

Canada passes “Buy Canada” type resolution

Canadian mayors have passed a resolution that would potentially shut out U.S. bidders from local city contracts.

The resolution is in retaliation to “Buy American” provisions in President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill. Mayors voted 189-175 to approve the resolution at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Whistler, British Columbia. [snip]

You can bet the beautiful people will have their own plan and CONGRESS will be covered under another SPECIAL plan.

Kennedy bill would make employers provide care

Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty – and all Americans would be guaranteed health insurance – under a draft bill circulated Friday by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s health committee.

The bill would provide subsidies to help poor people pay for care, guarantee patients the right to select any doctor they want and require everyone to purchase insurance, with exceptions for those who can’t afford to.

Insurers would be supposed to offer a basic level of care and would be required to cover all comers, without turning people away because of pre-existing conditions or other reasons. Insurance companies’ profits would be limited, and private companies would have to compete with a new public “affordable access” plan that would for the first time offer government-sponsored health care to Americans not eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or other programs.[snip]

Nowhere is there any mention of how this will be paid for now or in the future EXCEPT ON THE TAXPAYERS BACK.

Small businesses will close up shop. Large ones may find it cheaper to pay the penalty. MA’s foray into this mess has turned into a nightmare of soaring costs. The answer to that is restricting services, letting people die because it’s too expensive to treat them.
LBJ made the same promises about Medicare; it’s bankrupt and bankrupting the country.

If it wasn’t for CLIMATE CHANGE, imagine what it would be like!

Snow falls in western ND, in June

Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.

National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on Saturday.

Obama wants to raise the price of oil and heating gas under Cap & Trade.
Just another tax scheme, businesses don’t pay taxes. Taxes are the cost of doing business and are PASSED through to the consumer as higher prices.
You’ve been listening to the Democrats too long.

Carol Browner took a big step for Earth Day by leading the Obama team in the new direction. To show her commitment to Gaia, Carol

starts morphing into compost.

Such Dedication!

Here is the core of the Climate Change moonbat thought process.

Eco-Nazis=Marxists

Here’s one cogent argument against cap-n-trade.
Don’t expect any of the eco-nazis to listen to NASA when the report refutes part of their stated goals, which are confiscatory policies terminating in nationalized energy, auto or any other production resulting in aggregation of power.
Eco-nazis listen to science with the same keenness as Inquisitors listened to heretics and with the same conclusion.

Pollution controls caused Arctic ice melt: NASA

Read the rest at Vermont loon Watch.

The serious Climate Change damage forecast by the Eco-nazis is starting.

The heaviest snowfall in 20 years has closed thousands of schools and caused transport chaos up the eastern side of Britain, with London and the surrounding areas the hardest hit.
Six million bus passengers were left in the lurch as all London’s bus services were halted because of dangerous driving conditions, and every Tube line except the Victoria line was at least partially suspended. [snip]

The South East of England and the Pennines bore the brunt of the snowfall which began yesterday afternoon, with some of the hardest-hit areas reporting up to 1ft of snow. By the morning the heavy showers had extended as far north as southern Scotland.
Forecasters are predicting that during the rest of the day and tomorrow the snow will continue to extend northwards and westwards across the UK, with a wave of even heavier falls due to reach Britain on easterly winds this afternoon. [snip]

Gordon Brown cautioned Brits not to worry. Two things are in our favour he said. “One is we don’t have that ghastly FEMA over here. Two, the glaciers won’t arrive until mid July.”

Preventing Al Gore’s from getting to Britain to silence the traitorous Brown, were thousands of ravenous polar bears, driven from their homes by the growing ice pack.

 Perhaps Al Gore can hustle over to the UAE and explain the dangers of Global Warming to the denizens and give them a word for “snow.”

This is the frozen north … of the UAE

RAS AL KHAIMAH // Snow covered the Jebel Jais area for only the second time in recorded history yesterday.
So rare was the event that one lifelong resident said the local dialect had no word for it.
According to the RAK Government, temperatures on Jebel Jais dropped to -3°C on Friday night. On Saturday, the area had reached 1°C.
Major Saeed Rashid al Yamahi, a helicopter pilot and the manager of the Air Wing of RAK Police, said the snow covered an area of five kilometres and was 10cm deep.
“The sight up there this morning was totally unbelievable, with the snow-capped mountain and the entire area covered with fresh, dazzling white snow,” Major al Yamahi said. [snip]

Gore should have plenty of time to travel; notice that the polar bears stopped drowning on 1/20/09.
From the home of the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming, on 1-24-09 in Nara Japan, celebration of New Year includes fireworks and an incendiary application to the entire mountain outside the city.

Lets hear it for carbon footprints.

Hey moonbats, where’s the outrage?

It’s policies like these heading into the teeth of a recession that convince me President-elect JimmyBarack CarterObama will be a one and done president:

“We will establish strong annual targets that set us on a course to reduce emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 and reduce them by an additional 80 percent by 2050,” he said in a video address to a global warming summit in California attended by U.S. governors and representatives from other nations.

If the US has double digit unemployment in 2012, a green planet won’t save JimmyBarack CarterObama.   Even the enviro crowd throwing around the 5 million new green jobs number admits it was created “just to inspire people”, which translated means we fabricated it.

It would be a miracle if this president is able to get the economy back on track.  His big policy initiatives–socialized healthcare, protectionism, union card check, increased government regulation, green initiatives, and increased taxes–are all drains on an already battered economy.

Get ready for an epic fail when it comes to the Obama, Reid, and Pelosi economy.  That means we’ll have a new president in 2013 and a steady attrition of Democrats in Congress.

If you think this will help the economy…

Go here for the story.

This is for a particular commenter who has made another appearance here once more.

MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data

Boston (MA) - Scientists at MIT have recorded a nearly simultaneous world-wide increase in methane levels. This is the first increase in ten years, and what baffles science is that this data contradicts theories stating man is the primary source of increase for this greenhouse gas. It takes about one full year for gases generated in the highly industrial northern hemisphere to cycle through and reach the southern hemisphere. However, since all worldwide levels rose simultaneously throughout the same year, it is now believed this may be part of a natural cycle in mother nature - and not the direct result of man’s contributions.

Oh dear, that nasty old sow, Mother Nature, is screwing with man again. Nothing like a poke in the eye with a sharp bit of manmade hubris, is there now.

Methane - powerful greenhouse gas

The two lead authors of a paper published in this week’s Geophysical Review Letters, Matthew Rigby and Ronald Prinn, the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, state that as a result of the increase, several million tons of new methane is present in the atmosphere. [snip]

Ohmigod! No cow can poot that much, must be Gore running that gianormous houseboat and the Hollyweird swells jetting off to Europe. All those big mouths belching CO2 and farting at those parties did it.

More study
[snip]
…Where does one even begin? And how relevant are any of the data findings at this late date? Looking back over 2007 data as it was captured may prove as ineffective if the data does not support the high resolution details such a study requires.

One thing does seem very clear, however; science is only beginning to get a handle on the big picture of global warming. Findings like these tell us it’s too early to know for sure if man’s impact is affecting things at the political cry of “alarming rates.” We may simply be going through another natural cycle of warmer and colder times - one that’s been observed through a scientific analysis of the Earth to be naturally occurring for hundreds of thousands of years. [snip]

So, that was only an acorn falling from the tree and not the sky.
Global warming BUNGHOLES.

The Carbon Curtain

What we really need from the climate modelers is an accurate 50-year projection of global politics.

[snip]
A number of influential people in Russia, China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam say the planet is now entering a 30-year cooling period, the second half of a normal cycle driven by cyclical changes in the sun’s output and currents in the Pacific Ocean. Their theory leaves true believers in carbon catastrophe livid.

To judge by actions, not words, the carbon-warming view hasn’t come close to persuading a political majority even in nations considered far more environmentally enlightened than China and India. Europe’s coal consumption is rising, not falling, and the Continent won’t come close to meeting the Kyoto targets for carbon reduction. [snip]

Not by coincidence, the carbon curtain tracks a schism between stagnation and growth. The lethargy side includes the American Northeast and upper Midwest, the European Union, Japan and eastern Canada. The high-growth states, provinces and nations are the ones embracing the development of domestic fuels, the construction of power plants and transmission lines, the import of fuels and technologies needed for enterprise and economic growth and the export of fuels and technologies to like-minded partners. They have nothing against energy efficiency and renewables; they just don’t focus on them much.

Uranium is the only carbon-free fuel liked by fast-growing nations. Some 439 nuclear power plants are currently operating in 31 countries. China plans to build another 100 for itself in the next 20 years. By 2020 or so a new reactor will be starting up somewhere in the world every five to six days, compared with one every 17 days in the 1980s. China is building coal and nuclear plants in Pakistan, and Russia in Iran, Bulgaria and India.

No serious student of global politics can accept the notion that the world will soon join ranks behind Brussels, Washington and the gloomy computer and its minders. Dar is surely right when he says, “The U.S. and Japan will not tell Asia and Africa to choose poverty, disease, hunger and illiteracy over electricity.” [snip]

So does the climate computer have a real audience, or is it really just another bag lady muttering away to herself in a lonely corner of the intellectual park? That the computer is heard in Hollywood, Stockholm, Brussels and even some parts of Washington is quite beside the point–they have far less global power and influence than they vainly imagine. Vinod Dar is right: “Contingency planning should entail strategic responses to a warming globe, a cooling globe and a globe whose climate reverberates with laughter at human hubris.” (emphasis added)

This gets the BIG AMEN.

Question: If China has a nuclear meltdown, will they call it “The American Syndrome?” Do you think they care? LMAO

Gore sets ‘moon shot’ goal on climate change

[snip]…Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace. [snip]

Here Gore peers out at his small gathering of moonbats as he drones on about his megalomania.

Rarefied atmosphere in which he lives.

Yes–India still uses coal for locomotives! Here is a DHR Locomotive 791 with the afternoon ’school train’ to Kurseong. The locomotive is taking water at the Darjeeling water tank. 21th February 2005–Photographer - A.M.Hurrell

About a pack or two a day’s worth isn’t it? Why aren’t the green whining weenies over there screeching and sticking forks in their eyes?

Vermonters of all political persuasions can get behinds this novel and green innovation. Rechargeable batteries in series connected to a capacitor delivers proper amperage with a short cycling time.

Solar-Powered Electric Chair

AUSTIN, TX—Garrett Durning of the Texas Environmental Defense League has spent the last three months campaigning tirelessly for the installation of solar-powered electric chairs in state prisons. “Texas wastes more than 500,000 watts of electricity on every criminal it executes,” Durning told reporters Monday. “We live in the 21st century, and it’s high time we acted like it. Let’s stop depleting our non-renewable fossil fuels. Solar power is a more energy-efficient way to execute the condemned.” Durning added that wrist and ankle restraints should be made of hemp rather than leather, the use of which is cruel.

Furthermore, by using found and recycled materials the state can save a tree. I’m sure the Burlington/Middlebury peoples artist collectives will create a suitably shaped device honoring the victims and all with no carbon footprint.

Toss aside a harmonic convergence of this level dispassionately. I should say not!

Perhaps the courts are a place to crush this bit of silliness. That cuts out the media and Hollyweird along with most of the pinkos in congress.
The destruction of the world’s economy through burning food as fuel combined with strangling fossil fuel production is here. Witness $4/gal gas, corn and wheat prices and a serious spike in stupidity in politicians.
This makes for interesting reading as well as enlightenment. Of course, there are some who prefer to sit in dark closets.

Global Warming and the Price of a Gallon of Gas

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. [snip]

Most of the clowns running for office have this climate nonsense hook firmly in the gullet. Help them get it out by voting them out of office.

Don’t you just hate this when it happens

Mud, snow to greet Memorial Day hikers

At 5 p.m. Tuesday, 18 inches of snow remained on the ground near the top of Mount Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak. The snow cover includes some of the 3.5 inches of fresh fluff that descended on the mountaintop Monday. More light snow is likely over northern Vermont summits today and Thursday, the National Weather Service in South Burlington said. [snip]

No snow will fall in the valleys this week, meteorologists said. Instead, chilly rain showers are forecast with temperatures in the low- and mid-50s. That’s about 15 degrees colder than normal for this time of year.

So how is Algore going to fix this?