TARP, Pokulus, and the GM bailout are just the warmup acts

With all Al Gore's fame over Global Warming, so many have forgotten that 30 years ago he was crying about nuclear winter and the coming Ice Age.

The man rakes in much dinero from his alarmist activities. There is much money to be had in searching for solutions to what does not exist.

Global Warming? Certainly not everywhere. One need only look at changes in weather patterns where it is actually getting colder. Did eveyone miss the article about 150 people freezing to death in Rio de Janerio?

Most reputable scientists are backing away from Gore's position. They say that it's a good idea to work to make the atmosphere better, but there is not enough proof, not enough data, and no computer models accurate enough to say whether the earth is going through a natural or a man made change. Afterall, no humans existed to log causes and effects for warming and cooling trends which took place BEFORE the industrial revolution. Geologists seem to feel that all we need is 3 (count them... Pinatuba, Mt St Helens, and one more from theRring of Fire) to equal all the man made greenhouse gases.

Meanwhile, you have ObamaJama pushing scare tactics and supporting such agendas as removing all those old style vehicles we lovingly call classics off the roads by a certain percentage each year.

In case nobody has ever noticed.... the Democrats are well known for their Chicken Little approaches to problems. The Bailouts and Stimulus are prime examples. Throw enough money at it and it'll go away. Al Bore LOVES that!

At least ObamaJama backed off the Transportation Secretaries idea to tax every mile you drive.

I was just thinking..What ever happened to that big hole in the ozone? And all that acid rain before that?

There's a bill our Governor of Oregon wants to pass that would outlaw any car part, (OEM and aftermarket) if it doesn't meet "somebody's" clean air guide-lines.

I'm kind of on the fence about this, because if more and more plug-in type cars begin to hit the roads, someone still has to pay to fix the pot holes:) And if I'm one of the few still burning petrol, I may have a big tax to pay.

And they gave Bore a Nobel prize. Why is it that the party who purports to be for the common man, is run by people who made mega bucks on the backs of the common folks or inherited it, and are wealthier than sin and want to "redistribute the wealth"? After it's reditributed, they still will not be poor enough to be among the "common folk".>>

I'm just south of your border (Redding), but I have a lot of familiy and friends spread between here and Portland. Oregon is a beautiful state (I'm partial to the coast)... but there are an awful lot of greenies there. :0)

Reminds me of Carl Reiner. Pushed a tax on cigarettes and beer, but NOT on cigars and wine. Do you suppose it's because rich people csn afford to smoke cigars and drink wine? Or is it simply a coincidence that among the few pleasure to working poor can afford (be they good or bad) are found beer and cigarettes?

Returning to the subject of EPA regulation of CO2 emissions under the Clean Air Act, the latest signs (as of Friday March ) are starting to show that global warming alarmism as a Bush-bashing tool is not the same when it's YOUR side that is calling the shots (and getting the blame). Even President O! must realize, at some point, that his policies are very close to destroying our economy for a very long time. It seems that a stock market worth only 80% of what it was worth the day you took office 8 weeks ago (DJIA of 8280 vs. 6500), and an actual unemployment rate of 14.8%, tend to focus the mind.

Thus, in the face of the realization that plugging commercial CO2 emissions into a regulatory structure intended to apply solely to actually harmful chemicals would shut down what's left of the economy, the Obama Nation is suddenly moderate in its goals. Just one example is the retreat from goals floated in the final year of the evil Bush administration, such that the Obama Nation's current target is merely to reduce US CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. This compares to a Kyoto number, signed off on by Al Gore himself but never ratified by the Senate, that the US should reduce emissions to 93% of 1990 levels by 2008, and hold them there through 2012.

Also, the useful idiots who voted for O! are starting to wonder when that oft-promised $13/week tax cut morphed into a mere placekeeper to compensate them for the pass-through consequences of a Cap and Tax scheme designed to suck $300 billion per year (or more!) out of the private sector. Although O! does not yet believe it, it's still true that you can't fool all the people all the time.

I'm all there on this friggen Global warmed up crap. I wrote an e-mail to one of my Oregon reps. asking why they have a bill to outlaw what THEY perceive to be gas wasting car parts (both production and aftermarket) This includes tires and anything else. And I made my point that this can only hurt companys and what the f*ck anyways?

He wrote me back basically saying we need to do what other states are doing, namely California, and it's what is best for the environment.

I just moved away from SoCal and it's no comparison from the air down there.

All I can do is tell this to anyone listening and hope people use their vote........Stupid people.