Plan to fight climate change will mean more coal burning
I suppose this one belongs in the irony section, or perhaps the unintended consequences forum.
Maybe it can now be included in the list of wars:
war on poverty = more poverty.
war on drugs = more drugs.
war on terror = more terrorists.
war on greenhouse gasses = more greenhouse gasses.
Maybe we can get the government to wage a war on common sense, or is it already?
WASHINGTON _ Coal-fired power plants are the largest source of the heat-trapping gases that cause global warming, but President Obama's plan to fight climate change would actually result in the nation burning more coal a decade from now than it does today.
The administration's plan, the centerpiece of a 700-page legislative package dealing with energy and climate-change, proposes to set strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide.
But to attract vital support from congressional Democrats representing states or districts that depend heavily on coal mining or on coal-fueled manufacturing, authors of the legislation have made a series of concessions that substantially soften its impact on coal _ at least over the next decade or so.
As a result, the Environmental Protection Agency projects that, even if the emissions limits go into effect, in 2020 the United States will still use more carbon-dioxide-heavy coal than it did in 2005.
I suppose this one belongs in the irony section, or perhaps the unintended consequences forum.
Maybe it can now be included in the list of wars:
war on poverty = more poverty.
war on drugs = more drugs.
war on terror = more terrorists.
war on greenhouse gasses = more greenhouse gasses.
Maybe we can get the government to wage a war on common sense, or is it already?