Real Cost of Climate Alarmism? Taxes, Rising Prices, Food Shortages (04.25.08 Briefing)

By Steve Elliott (Grassfire) | April 25, 2008 08:37 AM

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*The real cost of climate alarmism
*Petition reaches 100,000
*Is oil or food king?
*My interview with Rep. Walter Jones on the border fence
*Planned Parenthood "genocide" againt blacks?
*Apple's Mac gains market share

04.25.08 Briefing • Steve Elliott, Grassfire.org • Subscribe here • RSS

Ethanol, Food Shortages and the Real Cost of Climate Alarmism
As Americans go to the grocery story and discover rising food prices on the shelves, we have to thank in part Climate Alarmism. The push to turn our food into fuel has played a role in the rise of food prices here in the U.S. and globally. And it's only going to get worse as American farmers respond to the federal mandate and more and more of our farmland is committed to fuel and not food. With global reports of riots, food prices up 83% and starvation, the political reality surrounding ethanol may change quickly. Read this from the Heritage Foundation: "Second Thoughts On Ethanol". MOna Charen chimes in with this article that questions at what price will we try to solve the so-called crisis of global warming.

I'm thrilled to announced that our petition opposing the coming $1.2 Trillion global warming tax (vote expected in June) and Al Gore's climate alarmism just crossed 100,000 signers in just over a week. As we discover the real cost of climate alarmism (oppressive taxes, rising food and gas prices, global food shortages), perhaps 2007 will be remembered as the high point in Al Gore's climate crusade.

Join over 100,000 citizens and sign the Petition Against Climate Alarmism

Is Oil King or is Food King?
As a friend of mine said recently, the rise in food prices was somewhat predictable, as if the currently popular idea that oil is king inevitably gets challenged by the reality that food is fundamentally more important. He noted to me that the last huge spike in fuel prices (1970s) was followed by a quick rise in food prices as if the markets will not let oil get too far ahead of food in real value.

My interview with Rep. Jones on the border fence
Rep. Walter Jones (NC) recently joined me for an interview to discuss the current status of the border fence. As you may know, Congress and the President recently gutted the Secure Fence Act, removing the double-layer fence mandate and giving DHS final discretion as to where, when and how to build the fence (if any is built at all). Earlier this week, DHS scrapped its highly touted virtual fence as a failure. Maybe it's time to build the fence that works -- the double layer fence. Please listen to my interview and then let members of Congress know what you think.

On the WEb today:
Planned Parenthood "Genocide" on Blacks
Apple Mac market share up to 6%!
Presidential candidates ignore the deficit
REv.Wright "in context"
Obama's official blogger a leftist?
Glenn Beck on ethanol
Pelosi uses bogus Scripture reference to advance Global warming
Documentary: "Inconvenient Fiction"

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April 26, 2008 03:56 AM

Bubbles

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April 26, 2008

OK, the estimated cost of climate initiative is 1.2 trillion. This would certainly create some jobs (you know those things that we have lost millions of due to so-called free trade).

Funny, seems the time we hear about the cost of things is when they want to complain about medicare fraud, katrina fraud, taking care of the environment, and most any kind of regulation (but no discussion of fraud in defense spending).

I don't hear much discussion about the cost of war (now estimated to be about 3 trillion). Oil revenues were supposed to pay for this little foreign adventure, but not much talk about that either. Why is there no open discussion of the cost of paying mercenaries eight times what the average U.S. soldier is paid? How about the cost of no-bid contracts given to Haliburton? How about a discussion on the effect of war costs on the economy in general?

April 26, 2008 07:53 AM

jmac1943

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May 19, 2007

How much will Forrest Gore make with his scam company if he can get the global warming law passed? We should refuse to pass it just to defy that creep. Manmade global warming is a scam, Mars polar caps are melting just like ours are, its called solar events and man has no control over them.

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