On January 2, President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency will start requiring that American industries use the "best available control technologies" to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. This action will:
Hurt America's economic recovery because our exporting industries will face higher energy costs,
Hurt American households because their electricity bills will rise, and
Hurt American workers who will lose jobs due to higher business costs.
Congress needs to immediately revise the Clean Air Act in order to exclude carbon dioxide from possible consideration as a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is one of the three chemical compounds (along with oxygen and water) needed to sustain life on earth. It is not a pollutant.
Comment by guy gard, 12/16/2010:
that is a truly idiotic statement.
Response to this comment by Roger Taylor, 12/17/2010: And why would that be? Presumably you are a believer in the CO2 is a pollutant crowd. The world has been cooling since 1997 and no phony stats from crooked outfits like the University of East Anglia who destroyed their raw data when exposed as media manipulators can make it otherwise.
You and your kind are ideologically motivated which somehow fits in with your world view of the West being in need of taking down and the 3rd worlders to inherit the earth though somehow you also want to keep your fat salary in a State bureaucracy at the same time. Why don't your types who go around posing as "radicals" just grow up?
[An] extensive argument for balanced trade, and a program to achieve balanced trade is presented in Trading Away Our Future, by Raymond Richman, Howard Richman and Jesse Richman. “A minimum standard for ensuring that trade does benefit all is that trade should be relatively in balance.” [Balanced Trade entry]
Journal of Economic Literature:
[Trading Away Our Future] Examines the costs and benefits of U.S. trade and tax policies. Discusses why trade deficits matter; root of the trade deficit; the “ostrich” and “eagles” attitudes; how to balance trade; taxation of capital gains; the real estate tax; the corporate income tax; solving the low savings problem; how to protect one’s assets; and a program for a strong America....
Atlantic Economic Journal:
In Trading Away Our Future Richman ... advocates the immediate adoption of a set of public policy proposal designed to reduce the trade deficit and increase domestic savings.... the set of public policy proposals is a wake-up call... [February 17, 2009 review by T.H. Cate]