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• 1. Bob Trojan  |  July 12th, 2009 at 9:52 am

  This is one of the issues that I contend puts us in a non-competitive situation with China and India. We want to penalize our manufacturers when the big, fast growing polluters want no part of cutting their own pollution. As the article says….

  “However, their goals are nonbinding, and it’s far from clear they will be met. The wealthy nations failed to persuade the leaders of big developing countries to promise to cut their own fast-spreading pollution, unable to overcome arguments that the well-established industrial giants aren’t doing enough in the short term.”

• 2. Art  |  July 12th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

  It is difficult, because there are some 700 scientists, some the best and most respected in their field, that say climate change is not man\’s fault. also, and EPA study sayd Earth is in a cooling trend until 2030. And then their is the fact that plants need cabon dioxide to live, so if we eliminate all carbon dioxide emisions, we kill our food source and we all die.

• 3. Chuck Sweeny  |  July 13th, 2009 at 12:33 am

  I agree with Bob. The “cap and trade” bill will add from $2,000 to $3,000 a year .to the average energy bill. It will put millions of
  Americans out of work.
  China, the world’s fastest growing economy, has passed the U.S. in carbon emissions and has no plans to stop. They are putting up coal-fired power plants as fast as they can. We can’t exactly order China to stop, mainly because they own so much of our debt. OUr economy would not exist if China stoppen buying U.S. Treasury notes.
  As I said in a recent column, the only way to do this is with an international treaty like the Montreal Protocol.

• 4. Chuck Sweeny  |  July 13th, 2009 at 12:34 am

  No, I didn’t mean to invent a new word. “Stoppen” should be stopped.

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