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 Hillary Clinton is going to end global warming. At least her campaign website says so. It lists this aim:
"Reduce Global Warming - Hillary has championed the
most aggressive approach to reducing global warming out there. She
supports an 80% pollution reduction by the year 2050, an approach that
has been called the gold standard of global warming reduction."
Oh, and she also wants to suspend the federal gas tax so that people
can keep driving their 10-mile-per-gallon SUVs on their summer
vacations.
So is she a tree-hugger or an SUV-hugger?
Both, it seems. Only she's not fooling anyone.
The enviros are mad as hell about that TV ad of
hers in which she's seen sitting in an SUV promoting her tax break for
gas-guzzlers and promising to "bring gas prices down for good." This is
unlikely, but if it did happen people could keep driving their
gas-guzzlers forever.
But if we're going to reduce CO-2 "pollution" - as the tree-huggers
call it while exhaling carbon dioxide - by 80 percent, we'll not only
have to get rid of the SUVs and pickups featured in Hillary's ads;
we'll have to give up gas-powered vehicles.
As for Hillary herself, she travels in a fleet of Toyota Prius hybrids.
I had you there for a second, didn't I? Actually Clinton travels in
a fleet of SUVs, just like a whole lot of other Democratic politicians
who cry crocodile tears about carbon dioxide.
The Washington Post notes
that "she added visuals to her pitch by joining a sheet-metal worker on
his ride to work, stopping with him at a gas station to fill up the
pickup truck he was driving as her motorcade's SUVs idled nearby."
Meanwhile, a Bloomberg News story reports
that 200 economists have signed a letter condemning the idea, including
Alice Rivlin, who ran the White House budget office during the Clinton
administration.
``I don't have to agree with everything she says, and I think she was
wrong on this one,'' Rivlin said in an interview. ``If anything, we
need higher gas taxes.''
Actually, to meet Hillary's goal high taxes wouldn't be enough. We'd have to ban the internal combustion engine.
And then there's this Washington Post article with a photo of Ms. Global Warming giving a speech from the bed of a pickup.
Meanwhile, high gas prices are having the effect that you'd expect in a free market: The people who bought SUVs during times of cheap gas are now frantically trying to sell them.
As the great H.L. Mencken said, it's tough to underestimate the taste
of the American public. But Hillary has managed to do it. Source
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