Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Follow the money, or not?
Watching c-span... Mr. Bingaman of New Mexico is speaking right now, essentially proposing Kyoto in sheep's clothing. His argument is that we don't have to commit economic suicide all at once; we can just dismember ourselves one limb at a time to satisfy the Gaia-worshippers.
Following the money: Is Mr. Bingaman really a Gaia-worshipper? No, he's just the Senator from Natural Gas.
Here are Mr. Bingaman's largest contributors in the last election. Note Exelon Corp. and El Paso Corp in positions 1 and 3: both are natural gas producers, who will benefit from 'clean energy' initiatives.
Now Sen. Inhofe of Oklahoma is speaking, with good charts and good logic, on behalf of actual science and against Kyoto. Does he have vested interests? Sure. Pretty much the same profile as Bingaman, in fact. (Except that Bingaman, being a member of the Party of Treason, has more contributions from lawyers than from any productive business.)
So the opposite approaches are not just caused by contributions, but by genuinely different views of the world. Mr. Bingaman is against the United States, and Senator Inhofe is for.
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Update: Mister Bingaman's Kyoto-in-drag has passed. Verily, Gaia will be highly pleased with this quadrillion-dollar sacrifice of a once-great nation, even if it is not to be offered in one Big Gulp, as She would undoubtedly prefer. ¶ 2:16 PM
Following the money: Is Mr. Bingaman really a Gaia-worshipper? No, he's just the Senator from Natural Gas.
Here are Mr. Bingaman's largest contributors in the last election. Note Exelon Corp. and El Paso Corp in positions 1 and 3: both are natural gas producers, who will benefit from 'clean energy' initiatives.
Now Sen. Inhofe of Oklahoma is speaking, with good charts and good logic, on behalf of actual science and against Kyoto. Does he have vested interests? Sure. Pretty much the same profile as Bingaman, in fact. (Except that Bingaman, being a member of the Party of Treason, has more contributions from lawyers than from any productive business.)
So the opposite approaches are not just caused by contributions, but by genuinely different views of the world. Mr. Bingaman is against the United States, and Senator Inhofe is for.
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Update: Mister Bingaman's Kyoto-in-drag has passed. Verily, Gaia will be highly pleased with this quadrillion-dollar sacrifice of a once-great nation, even if it is not to be offered in one Big Gulp, as She would undoubtedly prefer. ¶ 2:16 PM
