It’s Gonna Be Tight

Posted on 06/26/2009 at 9:03 am by Bob Cesca

It’s largely flown under the radar, but the Waxman-Markey climate bill could come to a vote today. And there are only 184 confirmed ‘yea’ votes. Not quite the 218 needed to pass.

Benen passes along this AP description of the effects of the bill:

“It fundamentally will change how we use, produce and consume energy, ending the country’s love affair with big gas-guzzling cars and its insatiable appetite for cheap electricity. This bill will put smaller, more efficient cars on the road, swap smokestacks for windmills and solar panels, and transform the appliances you can buy for your home.”

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  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    I’m not a big fan of the cap and trade bill, at all. People who live in northern climates (like me) are going to take it on the chin during winter, and I’m shaking my head in amazement as I listen to my President try and explain to me that it will only cost me $178 more every year, and that it isn’t a tax for me.A. Even if it were that small, that $178 amounts to an additional tax. A tax by any other name or method is still a tax. We’re not that stupid, Mr. President. You can’t use flowery rhetoric to lie to us.B. That may be the average of the cost increase for citizens, but I’ve heard that for citizens living in the north, our increase will be on the order of more than $2000.C. Pardon me, but no one has invented a way to heat a home without using carbon emitting fuel at some stage in the process. Even Ground source heat pumps use electricity.D. Cap and trade will create the largest investment bubble in the history of man, and once normal investors realize that there’s nothing of intrinsic value behind these securities, except the “honesty” of the traders, that bubble will burst. Mark my words; THE NEXT INVESTMENT BUBBLE WILL BE GREEN.I eagerly await the ass-kicking we in the north are going to take, as utility companies pass along the “tax” to us GUILTY, EVIL consumers of heat and electricity. A curse on those damn citizens and their ‘lectricity usin’ ways!Thank you, government, for making my life so much better.Dumbasses.

  • ec

    I dunno, I live in Boston and have been purchasing only wind and hydro electric power for the last two years and my electric bill has never been above $60 a month for my house.There is a conservation component to this switch to renewables.