The Democratic Party released its national platform Thursday ahead of its upcoming convention in Denver. While the health-care section is Hillary-esque, most sections, including those environment- and energy-related, echo the calls that Barack Obama has made throughout his campaign. The section "New American Energy" declares that Dems will create up to 5 million jobs in the green-energy sector, "clean up our coal plants," make the U.S. 50 percent more energy-efficient by 2030, institute a cap-and-trade program, increase auto fuel efficiency, source 25 percent of electricity from renewables by 2025, invest in cellulosic ethanol, install a smarter electricity grid, and reduce oil consumption 35 percent by 2030. In a swipe at Republicans, it notes that "we can't drill our way to energy independence" and that "the problem of four dollar a gallon gas" will be solved "with a comprehensive plan and investment in clean energy." The platform also says that "man-made" climate change is "not just an economic issue or an environmental concern" but "a national security crisis," requiring a "global response" including "binding and enforceable commitments to reducing emissions, especially for those that pollute the most."
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geoark Posted 1:48 am
24 Aug 2008
See The Carbon Tax Center to learn why cap and trade would set us back: http://www.carbontax.org/
For starters the U.S. Office of Management and Budget has determined that the Carbon Tax would be five times more effective at moving us toward our carbon goals than Cap and Trade schemes.
If you don't like the sound of "tax" in carbon tax then call is something else like "Earth Fee" for using OUR atmosphere. Then give everyone an equal Earth Citizen's Dividend rebate to make it work economically, ecologically, and politically.
Better yet, a shift of taxes off work and production and onto the use of our limited natural resources would catalyze a new green industrial revolution and help us find solutions to the peak oil crisis we all face. If you have anything to do with the Democratic (or Republican) party platform please google The Green Tax shift or go to http://www.progress.org/banneker/shift.html
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Tax Waste, Not Work and Create a Sustainable Future
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geoark Posted 6:09 am
24 Aug 2008
Tax Waste, Not Work and Create a Sustainable Future
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