Obama Oil Speech: No Cap-and-Trade Doesn't Mean He's Given Up

If Company A emits 100 units of carbon, Company B emits 55 units of carbon and Company C emits 95 units of carbon they all emit a total of 250 units of carbon. Now if Company A recieves 85 carbon credits, Company B recieves 75 carbon credits and Company C recieves 90 carbon credits they all have a combined total of 250 carbon credits. Now the companys are allowed to buy and sell the needed/extra credits they have, how does that lower emissions? Unless the government lowers the pool of available credits at certain times then there will not be a lowering of carbon emission, just more money in someones pockets.

Let's face it. Obama is overmatched. We see more and more evidence every day...

If you do not think Obama is going to use the oil spill to push his Cap and Trade bill you are incredibly naive. I can't help but wonder if he delayed actually DOING anything about the spill for it to be disastrous enough to help his carbon tax agenda agenda.

His arrogant behavior is doing more damage to this country then good. What he wants to keep shoving through congress is only stalling any economic and job growth that would normally be taking place. People and businesses are holding tight not knowing what is next. Members of his own party refuse to run for reelection.His own party is trying so salvage something out of the November election which they view as a dramatic lose.

Obviously, the solution to any problem is a new tax. Obama has structured his life around being the recipient of new tax money and then doling it out to gain power and favor. For all of his life this idea seemed to work, there was the benefit of the Reagan economy, i.e. lower taxes for Obama to raise and money available for him to tax and take. But, what Obama did not understand is that people can easily figure him out. So they stopped, waiting for him to go. Nothing, no economic growth, no hiring, nothing. Obama will leave a legacy of the worst president who created the worst period for the worst of reasons. Old ideology that is know to be the worst. The one good thing about this is that after he is gone, all the political dogma taught at the universities will be know to be a lie.

Cap and Trade is nothing but a way to tax the American public while giving Congress more of your money to spend. Someone commented that the oil companies are for it, why should they not be if they will simply pass on the taxes to the public sector. Cap and trade will do nothing for the reduction of greenhouse gases. Those with the money will simply buy the units of smaller business and put them out of business while continuing to pollute.

This administration is making every effort to hide their tax policy but if Americans will pay attention it is easy to see what they are doing. When Obama told the voters that he would not raise taxes on anyone making under $250,000, he didn't tell them that the taxes would be raised on utilities, autos, homes, gasoline, cigarettes, and all other consumer products. If he does away with the Bush tax cuts is he not raising taxes? Our represenatives say this is not a tax hike but watch the tax amounts on your paychecks.

This administration is doing everything in it's power to help the Unions while the average "Joe" on the street is getting the bills for it. Political decisions are being made for a minority of the people not the majority. It is time to send new people to Washington and to put term limits in place so that they do not believe that they have a right to be in Congress.

He declared that he won't stand for congressional "inaction" on energy. The agenda of the "puppetmasters" is to make Obama ram through another all encompassing law, so they can lock us down and take away the rest of American's freedoms. Michael Steele's comment about a job-killing energy tax is correct, and in addition to that, a whole bunch of American's money is going to be sent to third world countries to support them. Obama has not worked on providing jobs for Americans, and BP has been allowed to keep polluting America's ocean and continent. America's wealth is being given away instead of circulating it among Americans. If we could get these government people out of the way of America's best interests...Americans could get things going again on their own. Americans are highly intelligent people, especially those who don't watch television, propaganda, and can read between the lines of the news propaganda.

"The president's vagueness offered the worst of several worlds. He did not make a strong case for putting a price on carbon – in fact his glancing allusion probably went unnoticed by 90 percent of America." Ummm, I notice it and thought it was pretty important! So why do you think it went unnoticed by 90% of Americans? Assuming we're not paying attention, ignorant, realize anything Obama says is baloney? Which one is it?

The long-suffering fishermen and shrimpers will not be much relieved to hear that the President's answer (as always) is higher taxes and more Federal power. Shrimping in solar-powered electric boats is not an answer, nor is attacking the businesses that supply energy helpful in solving either the energy problem or the well blowout problem.

If you could talk the well to stop spewing or do so by appointing a commission of Nobel scholars to study charming the well to sleep, we would have a great leader.
In the real world we have Obama.

Yeah, wean us off oil and put us on the limited Similac electric formula. The problem is that our electric system is over loaded and that causes brownouts and blackouts. It will be years and billions before our electrical system will be able to handle our growing electrical demand as it is. OOps, didn't think of that? FIGURES.