Well, in their own legislative way: GOP Lawmaker Pushes Bill BANNING EPA Officials From Airline Travel
The amendment is likely an effort to get EPA officials to practice what they preach. Republicans have criticized top EPA officials for logging thousands of air travel miles while issuing regulations on how much carbon dioxide can be emitted by power plants, cars and other sources.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and the head of EPA’s clean air office Janet McCabe both said they travel home from Washington, D.C. on weekends to visit their families. McCarthy regularly goes to Boston, Massachusetts, and McCabe heads out to Indianapolis, Indiana on weekends.
McCabe has also spent a lot of time travelling around the country promoting the agency’s so-called Clean Power Plan — a set of rules aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
Now pass it, dammit.
NO.DO NOT PASS. So You want do pay 4 times for your power bill? Just how stupid are you people? Sucked in by the so called politicians. And a politician will screw you over every chance they have.
No Fly, No Buy?
Put Decaprio and his pals on the list too! Ban Lear jets. That will shut them up fast.
The number of people pushing this anti CO2 agenda who would fail my “Are You a Climate Change Hypocrite?” challenge is staggering. Makes me wonder if any of them could meet it, which says to me that they only care if it effects others, but not them. http://heinzegroup.com/insight.htm#19
Yes I believe that the climate changes naturally, that our CO2 emissions will only have a small effect on the climate and that overall the positive effects will outweigh the negative effects.
Regardless of that:
1. I will live in whatever size dwelling I want to, and heat it with wood and renewable electricity.
2. I own vehicles; there is no public transit where I live.
3. I haven’t flown anywhere but locally since 9-11 made it too much bother.
4. My house is designed so it doesn’t need air-conditioning. I use the vehicle air-conditioning to keep my dog comfortable.
5. I’ll put another log on the fire and keep my house at whatever temperature I find comfortable.
While the GOP is at it they should table a bill to prevent police from policing black neighborhoods.
… and .. they ALL should be made to bicycle to work … all year in Wash. DC … no worries, because there is no more snow in DC because of Global Warming. The EPA has morphed into pure EVIL. Beauraeucratic power run amok.
Notjustthinking, yes paying 8 times, or more, for a power bill is good, that way it will wake the believers up and make many of them revolt.
The administrators of the EPA can walk home on the weekends, or ride horses. I’m fine with that.
But telling others to only fly if they pay a flying tax, or a gasoline tax, or a carbon tax, isn’t going to fly if they’re not willing to walk the walk, as both sides of their pay check comes from mine. That’s why.
To proactively prevent hypocrisy, anyone (especially for Indians and politicians) who is against fracking, pipeline construction and operation and Oil Sands development should not be allowed to buy one drop of gasoline, diesel, NG or any other petroleum product or electricity generated by any carbon-based fuel. And that shouldn’t come from the government, it should be at the retail level. No supportive bumper sticker – no gas forrrr you!! Ah…..To dream!
Jean, just to be clear, I think you should be able to live as you want. My challenge is for those who think someone needs to do something drastic to fight climate change.
Speaking of fighting climate change, whenever I hear the term “fight climate change” I shake my head as that is like saying we have to fight mother nature!
a climate change groupie practicing what they preach? how are they going to get to all those protests to educate us knuckle dragging cavemen?
Bless cavemen!
Dave, I agree completely. My answer to those who want to ‘fight’ or ‘stop’ the changing climate, is to ask them what is the perfect global temperature and the perfect global climate, and how will we know when we’re there. I also like to point out to them that I don’t believe that humans are causing he climate to change or the earth to warm, yet the ‘carbon footprint’ of my chosen lifestyle is 1/5th the N.American average and has been for decades; in most cases before they were born. Most of them can’t seem to grasp that I choose this lifestyle because my parents and grandparents lived through the great depression when it was a lot warmer than it its today, and they taught me to be frugal, live within my means, be debt free, and not be wasteful. I usually get blank stares, and then they go back to socializing with their farcebook friends on their i-whatever. I expect I’ll be gone before the shít really hits the fan and they’re grubbing through the garbage dumps looking for resources to stay alive.
Include Justine and Sophie in that circle of hypocrites. I was at a family reunion two weeks ago when the ”left” side of the family started hounding me because our small town hasn’t got a recycling depot for certain containers such as tin cans and glass jars. We do recycle paper, aluminum cans, plastic bottles used for drinks, farm chemical and petroleum containers. The recycling facility also holds garage sales that promote used goods that can be reused.
I tried to reason with my cousin. ”Instead of flying from Toronto to Regina, where you rented a car and will be driving close to 300 miles this weekend, if you’d have stayed home, how much better off would the environment be today??” She relied with that typical ”Well!” reaction so common to the society of entitlement. I had walked to the reunion that was two blocks away. She did however admit that the trip left a rather deep footprint, and that I had a point.
Jean, I tip my hat to you. I agree with everything you said, as Jim Dinning said years ago to a previous Liberal Federal Government, “It’s the Spending Stupid.” This applies to households too and a lot of what we (my wife and I) have today is a result of being Frugal in our earlier years.
Jesus Weeps: Tell your left leaning relatives that if they really believe and care, then rather than just doing a few easy things like recycling, they should take my Climate Change challenge: http://heinzegroup.com/insight.htm#19
A free-range low-carbon diet will solve all their problems.
Thanks for the “Climate Change Challenge”. I’ve started passing it along to my lib-prog friends. Good work!!
“Thanks for the “Climate Change Challenge”
And the there’s The Pledge…
http://www.canadianlandowneralliance.ca/take-the-pledge-about-hoax-climate-change-canadian-landowner-alliance.html
I am pretty certain that most of the EPA’s hierarchy were all hardcore Deadheads. Following the Grateful Dead around North America in old school busses. So, at the least, they should be made to relive their misspent youth by taking the mess transit that they used to ride around the country in the good ol’ 60’s. I will even make them a new tie-dye T-shirt … if they want.
They need a catchy title though: Reducing CO2 inequality, CO2 Fairness Act, CO2 Rationing for CAGW Hypocrites??
If this argument is valid: rich countries benefited from and are responsible for the majority of CO2 emissions therefore cost of reductions should be their responsibility.
Then so is this: rich peope benefited from and are responsible for the majority of CO2 emissions therefore cost of reductions should be their responsibility.
First tax the rich people, celebrities and politicians until they are at or below the average citizens’s CO2 footprint. Set a good example. /s
“… and .. they ALL should be made to bicycle to work … all year in Wash. DC”
I think they should be given the option to kayak or canoe on the Potomac, which should give them a nice commute because they have worked so hard to ensure water purity.
Why should the cyclists be the only ones to be accommodated, having bike racks?
Where, I ask, are the boat racks?
Was Washington D.C.s first main thoroughfare not the canal through George Town?
How can these people be thoroughly progressive if they don’t regress back to canal days?
Likewise Ottawa. Back to the Rideau Canal with you, Zoolander, hangers on, and bureaucratic cretins.