“Paid For By The Polluters” Wasn’t What Obama Was Saying In 2008

Proof • June 24, 2009

Earlier today, in his much-hyped press conference, Obama said that only “the polluters” would be paying for his cap and trade tax. Here’s exactly what he said:

At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe. It also provides assistance to businesses and communities as they make the gradual transition to clean energy technologies.

Unfortunately for Obama, that’s not what he was saying just a year ago when he pointed out (correctly) that cap and trade would make electricity rates “skyrocket”:

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost onto consumers.”

This sort of duplicity is what reasonable people describe as “lying.”

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

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Cap and Trade won’t reduce pollution one iota. Its an energy tax.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe. It also provides assistance to businesses and communities as they make the gradual transition to clean energy technologies.

It’s like the environmental movement is the social progressives religious movement.
Mickey

It is a fair conclusion to make that Obama speaks lies freely and often. All of the power utilities are stock holder owned private enterprises. They cannot function without turning a profit and they cannot turn a profit with the proposed Cap and Trade legislation that Obama proposes. Not only WILL they pass this tax on to the consumer they will do it WITH the federal governments blessing. The same applies to the majority of manufacturing in the country. The only thing this will accomplish is to drive even more industry to foreign shores.

A tax is a tax. Obama is a liar.

What’s in your wallet?
J.R.

It would be nice if we had an effective, non-biased media to point out the glaring hypocrisies of the One.
http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.

This is a liberal wet dream, unconnected to reality.

As if it will never occur to the ‘polluters’ to pass these costs on to the consumers.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Why does Obama hate working families that will have to struggle to pay their energy bills after he raises their rates?
bill-tb

Poor Obama. doesn’t know the difference between plant food and pollution. I say we set the atmospheric CO2 at zero and see how that works out.
http://www.valleydeals.com/cgi-bin/board2/YaBB.pl Kevin

Obama and his fellow travelers consider CO2 and water vapor, “pollutants.” Why do the hypocrites emit them?
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink

Why does Obama hate the Seltzer Boy?

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