<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Maryland Senator pushes for better transit, efficiency]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Jon Rynn http://www.grist.org/article/greeting-cardin/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:16:50 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/greeting-cardin/1 Great interview, Kate!

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]]> Comment #2 by johnnylucid http://www.grist.org/article/greeting-cardin/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:20:21 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/greeting-cardin/2 So how does Sen. Cardin get to work?

My question:  How does the Senator get to work each day?

Props to him for his great job internalizing the talking points of the DNC.

Lucidly perhaps, Johnny

]]> So how does Sen. Cardin get to work?

My question:  How does the Senator get to work each day?

Props to him for his great job internalizing the talking points of the DNC.

Lucidly perhaps, Johnny

]]> Comment #3 by geoark http://www.grist.org/article/greeting-cardin/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:15:49 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/greeting-cardin/3 Two questions

I see it as discouraging that 54 Senators support a Cap and Trade (I call it Cap and Charade) system.

Has the Senator read the Congressional Budget Report that states: "available research suggests that in the near term, the net benefits (benefits minus costs) of a tax could be roughly five times greater than the net benefits of an inflexible cap.2 Put another way, a given long-term emission-reduction target could be met by a tax at a fraction of the cost of an inflexible cap-and-trade program."
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=8934

Wake up folks.  Look into the Green Tax Shift that has been endorsed by 2,500 economists including eight Nobel laureates. Please check out The Carbon Tax Center http://www.carbontax.org/ then tell two people and pass it on.

Also, of the 171 billion dollars proposed for transit how much is for the development of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)? [see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Rapid_Transit ]

If the US doesn't invest in PRT, we will have to buy it from other countries more advanced than ours.  What percentage of the 171 billion would be put into the research and development of PRT systems?


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I see it as discouraging that 54 Senators support a Cap and Trade (I call it Cap and Charade) system.

Has the Senator read the Congressional Budget Report that states: "available research suggests that in the near term, the net benefits (benefits minus costs) of a tax could be roughly five times greater than the net benefits of an inflexible cap.2 Put another way, a given long-term emission-reduction target could be met by a tax at a fraction of the cost of an inflexible cap-and-trade program."
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=8934

Wake up folks.  Look into the Green Tax Shift that has been endorsed by 2,500 economists including eight Nobel laureates. Please check out The Carbon Tax Center http://www.carbontax.org/ then tell two people and pass it on.

Also, of the 171 billion dollars proposed for transit how much is for the development of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)? [see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Rapid_Transit ]

If the US doesn't invest in PRT, we will have to buy it from other countries more advanced than ours.  What percentage of the 171 billion would be put into the research and development of PRT systems?


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