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by mikeyouse 4660 days ago
This is such a ridiculous statement.

Leftists like Bill Gates, Newt Gingrich, John Hunstman, Frederick Smith, Susan Collins, Tim Pawlenty?

Cap and Trade was a free-market republican idea originally [1], but now that it's being advocated by the 'Leftists', it's become much more politicized.

A plurality of scientists agree that steps should be taken, the FUD denial is all paid for by a dozen companies who stand to profit from additional delays, yet it's somehow comparable to 'religion' to think that we should take action?

[1] - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Presence-of-Min...

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Cap'n Trade was, is, and will always be a guaranteed frenzy of corrupt corporatist rent-seeking. Both varieties of Coke-and-Pepsi Repubmocrat eat from that trough. I actually wish they'd pass a carbon tax, only to forestall the disaster that Cap'n Trade would be.
He didn't say only leftists.
Most scientists agreed that fire involved phlogiston not so very long ago.
Thank god the coal companies of the day discredited them. Oh no, it was science that discarded phlogiston? Carry on.