Just don't remember too many (or any) on the conservative side support the carbon tax. If they did I would disagree with them.
Do you have any links to times when Palin, Huckabee, etc. were in support of the carbon tax proposals....?? :thinking
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Wind and Water Power Program: NewsDetail
Tim Pawlenty signs a bill that includes cap and trade. Later says he's against it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yt3Q_98hl4&feature=player_embedded
Huckabee. "Climate change is all of our faults, and all our responsibility."
Talks about implementing a "true cap and trade."
There are several other instances of Huckabee expressing support for cap and trade, stricter vehicle emissions standards, etc. Repeatedly says it's our responsibility.
Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Debate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89FbCPzAsRA
(29 minutes in starts climate change discussion)
"I was the first governor to form a climate change subcabinet. We've got to reduce emissions."
(at 34 minutes)
Asked if supporting emissions caps.
"I do. I do."
Newt Gingrich
FRONTLINE: hot politics: interviews: newt gingrich | PBS
What was it that convinced you that global warming was a real and pressing problem?
Oh, I think the weight of evidence over time [convinced me] that it's something that you ought to be careful about. As a conservative, I think you ought to be prudent, and it seems to me that the conservative approach should be to minimize the risk of a really catastrophic change.
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In 2000, candidate George Bush pledged mandatory carbon caps; it was a campaign pledge. What did you think of it at the time? Were you for that?
I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good. And frankly, it's something I would strongly support.
Since when is govt control equal to free market? :roll:
Hey, it was your party saying it, not mine. The idea is that the cap and trade system provides a financial advantage to companies that operate efficiently from an emissions standpoint. Those companies will have excess credits to sell to other companies for an additional revenue stream. But Deuce, that just means the emissions are just transferred to another company and the net result is the same.
Really? Sure about that? I mean, the company buying the credits has a financial disadvantage - they're forced to buy credits to make up for their inefficient ways. If all companies have a financial incentive to operate cleaner, you really don't think the market is going to gravitate towards the companies that do that? After all, their better bottom line means they can offer lower prices or better products at the same price, generally speaking.
We are also developing proposals that make use of market incentives to control air pollution caused by sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions and the causes of acid rain.
-Ronald Reagan. Alluding to support for something along the cap and trade lines. His administration didn't accomplish it for acid rain emissions, but Bush Sr. did in 1990. Reagan did enact a cap and trade system relating to lead in gasoline.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/analysis/stavins/?p=762
In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan’s Environmental Protection Agency successfully put in place a cap-and-trade system to phase out leaded gasoline. The result was a more rapid elimination of leaded gasoline from the marketplace than anyone had anticipated, and at a savings of some $250 million per year, compared with a conventional no-trade, command-and-control approach.
Then there's Bush Jr.
The Clear Skies Initiative
The Cap and Trade System in the Clear Skies Initiative
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The basis of cap and trade is that the government DOESN'T tell you HOW to clean up your act.
The list of Cap and Trade supporters
Reagan (lead in gasoline)
Bush Sr. (acid rain pollutants)
Bush Jr. (further reduction to acid rain pollutants)
John McCain
Sarah Palin
Tim Pawlenty
Mike Huckabee
Newt Gingrich
Man. Look at all them liberals.