Comments on: Fifty Cents Per Month?

By: WolfeNotes.com » Gubernatorial candidates discuss energy and environmental issues

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:00:04 +0000

[...] strength of his environmental record. It was awkward to listen to McKeon repeatedly claim that Jon Corzine is a national leader for passage of the Global Warming Response Act; that the Regional Green House Gas Initiative [...]

By: nohesitation

nohesitation — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:35:46 +0000

overtaxed15 – you make some good points.
First, although it is accurate as written, I probably should change the word “prevent” to reduce or mitigate. We already are experiencing global warming – it is already here. The best we can do is reduce the really bad effects.
The price increase in electric rates would be permanent, but you need to distinguish the RATE from the monthly electric bill. Hopefully, energy conservation will REDUCE consumption, so even with a higher rate, the bills could be similar.
No comment on the political stuff.

By: overtaxed15

overtaxed15 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:33:36 +0000

Are you willing to pay more than 50 cents per month to prevent global warming?

OK, I’ll bite. How much “more”? How many months? I’m guessing that the cost will gradually increase over time, and that we’ll have to keep paying for decades. Electric rates are already rising so what you’re proposing is an acceleration of their growth.
Will my payment “prevent global warming”?
I understand where you’re trying to go with this “question of the day” but you need to reword it. Each payment will “help to reduce global warming”, but I’m fairly certain that nothing we can do will “prevent” it if the theories behind it are indeed correct. That is, regardless of what we do, the best scenario will be a mitigation of the effects.

Comparing RGGI pollution allowances with a Projected BAU scenario is the same methodology that the Bush Administration’s Department of Energy has been severely criticized for by national environmental groups. Yet that same method applied in NJ by DEP has been praised by environmental groups. Go figure.).

Come on BIll, this is politics not science!
Bush == Republican == Evil
NJ == Corzine == Democrat == Good
Yes, it’s as simple as that when it comes to most environmental groups.