Al Gore's $15 trillion carbon tax - A fool's task

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Gore's plan features a new, sophisticated, and expensive public-relations campaign, but it's all based on his views on carbon dioxide first broached in his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, which he reissued in 2000 for his failed presidential campaign. The subsequent efforts made by Gore during the past 25 years have transformed little from their genesis, and he remains as tragically wrong today as he was when he first surfaced as an opponent of everything linked to carbon-dioxide.

Al Gore's $15 trillion carbon tax - A fool's task

The document clearly shows that the core policy recommendation is a massive, punishing carbon tax. Gore would start the tax at $50 per ton, which would increase to $100 per ton over time, essentially destroying the market for continued robust development of the world’s fossil-fuel base. Our economic growth and personal well-being depend on robust fossil-fuel use, so Gore’s plan would destroy these as well.

The all-in estimated cost to re-engineer humanity is only a mere $15 trillion-enough money to give every man, woman, and child in the United States more than $46,000.

Ever since, Gore's pathway to political power and personal riches has been a successful one, however his multi-trillion-dollar effort today is his most sophisticated effort to date. Unfortunately for him, it will also fail, because what he's selling in his "new" proposal is bad for the people being asked to embrace it.

Over the years, Gore has emerged in many contexts in his effort to eradicate carbon-dioxide emissions, a benign gas required for all life to thrive on Earth-plant, animal, and human alike. It has never mattered to Gore that ordinary people everywhere have been hurt and will continue to be hurt by his continual efforts to make fossil-fuel energy expensive and that the poorest among us are harmed the mostby the energy policies he supports.

The anti-humanity proposals in Gore's latest initiative have as one of their chief goals the elimination of fossil fuels. Gore does allow for greater use of natural gas into the 2030s, but he eliminates coal right away. He also allows for oil use to grow into the mid-2020s, but"decarbonize" means just that; his plan inevitably ends with a phase-out of fossil-fuel use. Fortunately for us all-and make no mistake about it, the American people understand this-the fossil-fuel-free future Gore imagines is not supported by observation-based science, and it is contradicted by all the evidence we have gained from recorded human history.

The world is blessed with an abundance of fossil-fuel reserves, which allow the billions of people alive today and the billions yet to come to enjoy longer and better lives.

Read more, at: www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-fools-errand-al-gores-15-trillion-carbon-tax/article/

Source: washingtonexaminer.com

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