Cui Bono

Unless you have had you head buried in the sand for the last decade, I'm sure you've noticed evironmentalist calls for government regulations to slow "climate change." Since the failure of the Kyoto Treaty, environmentalists have tried to drastically reshape American law to combat those "evil corporations" and "needless consumers" who seek to eat the planet from the inside out. The most recent scheme to attempt to regress us back to a pastoral/agrarian lifestyle is the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill. This dangerous piece of legislation has already passed the House and will soon be voted on in the Senate.

As always the bill is being expanded and changed in the Senate, yet sadly not for the better. In the new version of the bill that has been passed by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Democrats (with Republicans protesting the vote), there is an extremely scary new provision. According to the Washington Examiner, the bill will contain a "climate emergency" provision. This provision will be triggered when global concentrations of greenhouse gases reach 450 ppm, which is set to happen within a few months. Once triggered it requires that the president to “direct all Federal agencies to use existing statutory authority to take appropriate actions...to address shortfalls."

Ron Paul on Cap and Trade