Comments about ‘House passes major energy-climate bill’

America - please support this bill in your congress. global warming is important and must be stopped. raise prices and help everyone conserve. my country will help with goods too costly in America. They safe and very cheap.

The former VP's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

In other words, his mansion consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses IN AN ENTIRE YEAR!!!

Personally, I don't have a problem with Al's $30,000 a year electrical bill, but I do have a problem with this fraud's hypocrisy.

Memo to Al: Please refrain from stating that the sky is falling and telling everyone how to live their lives, particularly a majority of those who appear to have a substantially smaller "foot print" than you, until YOU can start following YOUR own rules.

Just the facts. Typical liberal hypocrisy.

We are not complaining about quantity of energy consumption but quality.

Quality of Environment means cleaner ways of making energy.

Al Gores house has nothing to do with creating cleaner energy.

Global Warming, Global Dimming, Global Cooling...

Lets make quality of life better with cleaner energy production.

More dishonesty from the democrat goofballs. What other fabrications and thefts do the democrats have in stored for us? Over-taxation and theft from working people is democrat, for sure! And we thought Iran and North Korea had the basket case people! Not so, obama, gore and the other mentally challenged fabricators, make Iran and North Korea look like choir kids.
While I have cut back to save, the theft of my money by the democrats continues. The utilities never get cheaper, no matter how much one cuts back to save. Show me a carbon foot print! What a fabrication as are the rest of the environmentalist claims and snow jobs! obama and gore need to get a life and lessen in integrity.

Just read that the house passed the bill!

Wonderful!

It should have passed by a much larger margin - but these days, considering the complete nonsense that's being thrown around by the AM radio gasbags, I guess the important thing is that it passed.

Now on the to the Senate!

You're wrong, plain and simple. The hottest year since we started keeping track was in 1936, then 1998. The 1930's, as a decade, were hotter than the 1990's, even with the El Nino in the 1990's. Since 1998, the trend has been cooling. If you are arguing for environmental protection, then at least use correct facts. Otherwise, you discredit the movement.

More taxes- more regulations- more freedoms- more politics- more liberal control of everything. Wow; maybe I should send them power of attorney and the liberals can just control everything about my life including whether I live or die and when. Yep, Home of the Free and Land of the Brave? Ouch!

The master of saying one thing and doing another (i.e. Obama) doesnt even have the guts to call this bill what it really is; a carbon tax. This scam of bill is nothing more than a tax generating money maker that has NOTHING to do with protecting the environment. In Obamas world, the definition of transparency is smoke screen.

The Comrade in Chief knows that this tax is going to cream every single tax payer, particularly lower income individuals. As a result the Democrats have inserted an energy reimbursement plan into the bill that will give people defined as lower income a reimbursement via direct deposit.

Im sick of working to cover the expenses of those who dont. If the Comrade in Chief thinks that this is such a great idea, then everyone should have the opportunity to "share" in the process of saving the planet. Everyone!

This bill will cost the GDP trillions of dollars and countless jobs. Just ask Spain. Its just a way to confiscate your disposable income redistribute wealth and give it to those who havent earned it, not to mention fund socialized medicine.

This bill is going to be the beginning of the end for the Democrats. If the American public were as informed about this nightmare of a bill and its impact--as they were with Micheal Jackson life--it would have never passed because they would have been calling their congressional rep and telling them they were finished voting for them.

if more people would watch the science channel instead of the networks this issue would not be an issue.

God has let mankind control his destiny. The Republicans course is destruction. They contiue to be like the people during Noahs time.

that cool breeze on your back? Its not the turn of global warming, but more the fast swipe of your wallet. Great move, dems. How are you going to defend this one? And so much for campaign promises of transparency, bills on-line, blah, blah, blah-ma.

Which representatives voted for this stupid bill so we can vote all of them out of office!

Enough of the country club mentality that is in DC - they don't live here long enough to care about us regular Americans and our plight and right to strive for something better without having our money taxed away. Talk about taxation without representation!

I say vote them all out!

Wow.Even Obama says that this bill will lead to energy price hikes.Alternative energy is great but we simply do not have the massive system in place to be able to switch now.It would need to Once again the Democrats sock it to the poor, who are the once who will suffer more than anyone.No national discussion in the media. Quietly, more huge fines to the government and we see another government control that will hurt people.

We can argue the merits of the bill, and what it will do.

However, who can defend delivering the final verion of a 1,200 page bill less than 12 hours before it will be voted on?

This is not reasoned debate or good government, or even based on good science (see the report that EPA officials kept hidden from the public).

This is ego maniacal partisan politics at its worst.

The House leadership and every member who voted in favor of this pig in a poke should be thrown out of office, if not forced to resign in disgrace for failure to even read the bill they voted for.

Our government is falling to a level of corruption and incompetence that exceeds that of Chicago at its worst.

Our nation suffered a major hit to its economic future today.

"replace old jobs with new ones, replace those jobs from oil and coal to new green jobs." Somebody, or a buch of somebodies have lost their collective minds! They don't even have the jobs that will replace those "old" jobs. Whats that saying..."a bird in the hand" we will be left with no jobs and no prospect of how to get energy. Where is the reason? Why can't we look into all types of energy? and while we look we should not just throw away the energy sources and jobs that we are using at the moment. Its very frustrating to our political leaders bent on destroying our economy, and thus, our country. While the lemmings just sit there and nod their heads in aproval.

I was always taught to be prudent and to err on the side of caution.

It's a little like home food storage--if times get bad, and I hope they don't, then I have some insurance. If times never get bad, then I have a basement full of old food that I'll probably never use and I'm out a little money.

Same goes for global warming. If, as most scientists concur, there is the slightest chance that our planet is in trouble, why not do all we can to help? And, if it turns out that the scientists are wrong, at least we would have clean air--and as the wealthiest people in the history of the world, I'm sure we would cope just fine financially.

Water vapor is almost as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2 and there is a lot more of that. Why don't we regulate our water consumption. Maybe we could put a tarp over all of the oceans and lakes to prevent evaporation.

This was a huge mistake that hopefully will not be repeated in the senate. Cap and trade will destroy what is left of manufacturing in our country and the impact of this will start to appear in 3-5 years. There will still be manufacturing though, except it will be in China and they currently use coal to operate their power plants, glass and steel furnaces, etc. This is not using clean burning technology, either. Big mistake.

Science channel is okay. However, a better source is NASA. Their scientists do not agree with the global warming crowd. The sun has produced less solar flares this year than in decades. These flares can cause unique damage to many things including the Ozone layer. Yet, this is not occurring. The ice flow in Anarctica is now larger than it has been in years. The population of Polar Bears is VERY stable and has NOT been decreasing contrary to the hysteria surrounding them. Please read the reports from scientists in the field as many of them are taking a beating from the press but they are standing their ground on facts not political fame. I work with them and stand with their findings. We need to care for our environment yet, we need to be using more common sense and let the private sector and objective scientific groups suggest and lead the way to care for our communities and ecosystems.