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Earth Day Update: The Left Does Understand

Posted April 22nd, 2009 at 10:01am in Energy and Environment, Ongoing Priorities 5 Print This Post Print This Post

Then-Senator Obama: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

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5 Responses to “Earth Day Update: The Left Does Understand”

  1. earth day on at said:

    On Earth Day share my passion for supporting a sustainable planet and check out http://www.e3bank.com

  2. Barb -mn on at said:

    Climate change is a good example of what? Government corruption? There is no example of any urgency regarding climate change. Human life can only adapt to it, not change it.

  3. jr., Michigan on at said:

    gerritt, you must be a lefty.

  4. Greg Mackey, Minneapolis, MN on at said:

    Eliminate economic liberty and say “goodbye” to political liberty
    (paraphrase of Sen. Danial Webster).

  5. WM Cox on at said:

    Only a narcissist like O’Bama is arrogant enough to think he change the course of Nature. There is not one credible scientist in the scientific community that agrees that people are the major cause of greenhouse gasses. The only people that agree with the theory are the people that have received financial aid and grants or will profit from the proposed tax. (Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi and others that are financially invested in companies that will receive funding from the Gov’t.

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