Climate change bill passes House, headed to Senate
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a key piece of climate change legislation 219 - 212.
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ACES has past and that is something that we must accept, but what I cannot accept is the mediocrity of the bill. A bill which many hail as a step in the right direction, is lacking in many areas. ACES fails to answer some of our most basic questions for the future of energy policy and sustainability.
1) Many supporters of ACES have argued "this is the best we can get given the circumstances" or that this bill "is a beginning." If so, the central question for community organizers is:.... More
Several points here, what is the real threat to the planet. It is rapid human growth that is being artificially inflated by third world countries. This bill will cause more starvation across the globe, like we saw last year when food riots broke out in places like Egypt. That was due to Corn-based ethanol and the price of gasoline. Ethanol was a fantasy, it costs more to produce than the power it provides. This is a joke, a really bad joke. It will not save the planet but give government the.... More
The vote has not happened yet. The vote you are referring to is the test vote that happened this morning. It is on the House floor as I type.
But you really should wait to post this...
that vote was a prelimary committee vote... as of 549p they are still debating the bill on the floor...?
should we tax ppl or should we build sustainable widnley avaliable solutions?
why a household has to be taxed since a household has nothing to say about a coal powerplant ?
I know that we do have to head towards this goal, however, passing this bill at this time will unfortunately cost current industries billions more dollars on purchasing the technologies necessary to comply with this bill. This will, in turn, cause many more to lose jobs to compensate for the high price. I think that this bill is needed eventually, but lets wait until our nation is "on our feet" again and recovered from this already damaged economy before we take more jobs away.
