Obama Calls On House To Pass Energy Bill; Says Polluters Will Pay

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is calling on members of the House to pass legislation that he says will "spark a clean energy transformation" and reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil.

Obama told reporters at a Tuesday midday news conference that the legislation will also deal with the problem of pollution that causes global warming. And he says it will be paid for by the polluters.

Obama said the measure will bring energy savings to Americans, while developing technologies that could create millions of new jobs.

He said again that a nation that leads the way to a clean energy economy will lead the global economy in this century.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Barack Obama is calling on members of the House to pass legislation that he says will "spark a clean energy transformation" and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

Obama told reporters at a Tuesday news conference that the legislation will also deal with the problem of carbon pollution. And he says it will be paid for by the polluters.

Obama said the measure will bring energy savings to Americans, while developing technologies that could create millions of new jobs.

He said again that a nation that leads the way to a clean energy economy will lead the global economy in this century.

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[Bcasey11]

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/press-center/releases2/greenpeace-says-waxman-markey

green peace says they hate it

[ronnald]

the new world order at work.

[ronnald]

more new world order crap.what a scam.

[StopGlobalWarmingBeVegan]

When will people wake up to realize that green energy is not going to solve climate change, only reducing livestock production is the true answer.

[jimrs6]

By "polluters", he means the American public, whose annual household costs will go up by $3000 or more. After all the complaints about a $40 digital TV converter box, this slides right thru.

[sc300nc]

Obama's plan will do nothing to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. But it will significantly increase energy costs for everybody. As a result of those increased energy costs, our taxes will need to be increased so that we can subsidize the folks that can no longer afford to pay their electricity bills thanks to the cost increases. The cost of everything we purchase will go up.

What will be the result? Nothing measurable. The climate won't stop changing, it will still be hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Not bad for hundreds of billions of dollars spent.

[mioffe]

I read Earth in the balance,1992, An inconveniant truth 2006,as many others books.
I read about Arrhenius in high school.
What surprized me-people who can't combine different information in their mind.
Please look at the clouds, they are on 2-7 miles above oceans level. WATER VAPOR is invisible gas. You will see water DROPLETS.
It takes 339 kcal of energy to evaaporate water. The same amount of energy will be released back, when water vapor will condenced to water droplet.
What is the differences- IT WILL BE ON 2-7 MILES UP, WHERE LATENT HEAT OF CONDENSATION WILL GO TO SPACE.
Molecular weight of H2O-18, N2-28, O2-32, CO2-44.
Only water vapor are going UP by their nature.
Only wind could send carbon dioxide UP.
In atmosphere we always have water droplets in form of fog, clouds and main reason responsible for visibilities.
When any GHG molecule will trap IR radiation it is always possiblle that closest water DROPLET will take from them IR radiation and create at least one molecule of water VAPOR, which by nature has tendency to go up.
If droplet of rain will fall to ground it also will be partially evaporated.
It works like pendulum of cooling the air process, despite water vapor is also GHG.
Think about this and stay away from mistakes of Al Gore, his advisers and followers.
IT MAYBE BILLIONS OF BELIEVERS OF AL GORE THEORIES, BUT ALL OF THEM ARE WRONG.

[kappa08]

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[mioffe]

Cap and pac and trade 8 times,
And remember you'll make crimes.
If your's z for every Zoo,
We will meeting very soon.