You can put lipstick (made in China) on a pig, but it's still a pig...
The Daily Caller (1/16/24) reports: "Dozens of energy experts and advocates signed onto a Tuesday letter to congress expressing their opposition to a bill that they say opens the door to a 'carbon tax.' Forty-one organizations were represented as signatories to the letter urging lawmakers to reject the PROVE It Act, a bipartisan bill that would mandate the Department of Energy (DOE) to study the carbon intensity of U.S.-made products as a potential first step toward implementing a carbon tariff on foreign goods, according to its text. However, as the bill’s opponents make clear in their letter to legislators, there is significant concern that the imposition of a carbon tariff on foreign goods would pave the way for the government to craft and enforce carbon taxes on domestic goods after the government establishes a means to calculate the cost of carbon... 'This is a climate and energy fight, but proponents of PROVE It are trying to avoid that by trying to make it about trade and China because they know there is more sympathy for taking on China [among Republicans],' Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance and signatory of the letter, told Politico. 'It’s not necessary to study something we know is going to cause harm and increase energy prices.' Pyle’s organization sponsored a recent poll with the Committee to Unleash Prosperity that found more than 50% of likely 2024 voters in eight swing states oppose a tax on imported products based on the amount of energy it takes to make those goods."
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"I thought the plan was for us as an advanced society to eventually go completely electric in the near future? Doesn't matter that 'producing lithium batteries (and disposing of them) are far worse for the environment and climate change than burning fossil fuels' - (The Institute for Energy Research) We're going green! Just one problem. How the **** are we supposed to get around, transport stuff, and go about our lives if these things don't even work when it gets cold?"
– Dante, Barstool Sports
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