From the White House:
FACT SHEET: President Obama’s 21st Century Clean Transportation System
Boy oh boy - more pork for the 1%!!!
As President Obama has repeatedly said, “no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.” At the same time, the President has made clear that taking steps to reduce carbon pollution presents an enormous opportunity to strengthen the economy, drive innovation, and create new jobs.
Bullcrap - you are talking about anthropogenic (human caused) global warming and this has been shown to be fallacious. When the evidence of this became widely known, you changed the subject to climate change. Hey Barry - the climate changes constantly - that is what it does - right now, temperatures have been stationairy and cooling for the last eighteen years and there is every indication that we are headed for another mini Ice Age.
A key step in that effort is making smart and strategic investments to create a cleaner, more sustainable transportation system. Today, our transportation sector accounts for 30 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. A new approach to our transportation system can help to speed goods to market, expand transportation options, and integrate new technologies like autonomous – or self-driving – vehicles while at the same time reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, cutting carbon pollution, and strengthening our resilience to the impacts of climate change.
Here comes the pork. Big companies contribute to the Democratic party and the Democratic party gives large subsidies to the big companies. Crony capitalism and We the People are left with a big sucking hole in our wallets and really stupidly designed products being forced down our throats.
The money quote:
That is why we are proposing to fund these investments through a new $10 per barrel fee on oil paid by oil companies, which would be gradually phased in over five years.
That is really going to help our economy recover. Is there anyone in Washington D.C. with a functioning brain? I mean really... Bueller?
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