{"id":1512,"date":"2009-10-21T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2009-10-21T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:02:57","slug":"sen-inhofe-reminds-us-that-cap-and-trade-is-a-costly-non-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1512\/sen-inhofe-reminds-us-that-cap-and-trade-is-a-costly-non-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Inhofe Reminds Us That Cap-and-Trade Is a &#8220;Costly Non-Solution&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking\u00a0Republican\u00a0on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, penned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/features\/Policy-Briefing_Energy-2009\/energy_environment\/39557-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">a great op-ed<\/a> in <em>Roll Call <\/em>this week about the\u00a0climate change legislation (aka Cap-and-Trade)\u00a0being pushed by the Obama White House and the majority leadership in Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No matter how many times Congress debates it, and no matter how environmentalists couch it, cap-and-trade will do virtually nothing to stop global warming, and cap-and-trade, as Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) said, &#8216;is a tax, and a great big one.&#8217; These are the fundamentals in the cap-and-trade debate&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We need to remind the American public, for example, that the 1,400-page Waxman-Markey monstrosity is a monument to big government that will make food, gasoline and electricity more expensive, increase mandates on small businesses, and increase the size and reach of the federal bureaucracy \u2014 all while doing nothing to affect climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The Kerry-Boxer legislation introduced Sept. 30 is, in many ways, worse than the Waxman-Markey bill. This reflects the attitude of one of the bill\u2019s sponsors, who said recently that, because of the recession, businesses should be expected to make even more expensive emissions reductions. While it\u2019s never a good time to pass a national energy tax, one would have thought that imposing such a tax during a recession is especially bad.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full column <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/features\/Policy-Briefing_Energy-2009\/energy_environment\/39557-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking\u00a0Republican\u00a0on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, penned a great op-ed in Roll Call this week about the\u00a0climate change legislation (aka Cap-and-Trade)\u00a0being pushed by the Obama White House and the majority leadership in Congress. No matter how many times Congress debates it, and no matter how environmentalists couch it, cap-and-trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,26,195,331,194],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-james-inhofe","tag-waxman-markey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}