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Davis: "Cap and tax is the devil's work"

July 10, 2009 1:53 pm ET

From the July 10 edition of Premiere Network's The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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    • Author by blueline99 (July 10, 2009 1:59 pm ET)
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      "... the articles that have come out indicating that prices will go up..."

      Thanks for being specific in your references... why don't you just say... the "I heard in the elevator..."

      The major point that they are all missing is that the Cap and Trade program is designed to create incentive for producing energy alternatives and using clean fuel... what if, in 5, 10, 15 years a company comes out with an alternative energy that we can't even conceive of know, and it was developed because of the economic necessity created by Cap and Trade.

      Right now, nobody is seriously investing in alternative energies because oil and coal are monetarily cheap and environmentally expensive, but until now, nobody has assigned a cost to the environment.
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (July 10, 2009 2:57 pm ET)
           
        The con's don't want us to lead. They'd rather have China and India fix the problem, sometime in the 22nd century, and then BUY the technology from THEM. (Of course, by then we will not have produced anything at all for over 50 years, since "free trade" will have moved all manufacturing overseas, and thus with everyone out of work, we probably won't even be able to afford electricity anyway, but hey - at least we won't have to put up with any gov't interferecne!)
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (July 10, 2009 3:12 pm ET)
         
      WHERE IS RUSH LIMBAUGH??? ...and why has he been absent so often?
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (July 10, 2009 4:05 pm ET)
           
        You haven't noticed the 300lb cigar smoker in the black jumpsuit that's been stalking you?
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    • Author by The_Cat (July 10, 2009 3:20 pm ET)
         
      Artificially expensive energy is kind of a humorous spin on the real world. As a satirist, Davis is inspired.

      Here in the real world, though, the truth of the matter is that energy, especially anything petroleum based, is kept artificially cheap. Every gallon of gas would cost about $15-$20 if it were taxed to pay for the environmental effects, and the cost of putting down governments in foreign lands to maintain the supply were factored in. Honestly, $15/gallon gas would spur a great deal of creativity in finding better ways to fuel our transportation system, encouraging more electric cars among other things.
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    • Author by LIBERTY OR DEATH (July 10, 2009 4:20 pm ET)
         
      cap and trade, it will be a complete disaster if we do not require it from the other trading countries around the world
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