(((Neocon ideologues... they really do believe that a national government is a bigger deal than the planet's oxygen. Regulating American business is more devastating to mankind than a molten icecap!)))
Link: Enemies to the Right of Him - Yahoo! News.
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"McCain seems to delight in taking positions that upset conservatives, as he did at virtually every campaign stop in New Hampshire by going out of his way to talk about global warming. The argument, which he repeated in the debate here last Thursday, goes something like this:
"My friends, I believe global climate change is real, and I think it's a major issue worldwide and in this country. I have been at odds with the Bush administration on this issue for a long time. Suppose that there's no such thing as climate change and we adopt clean technologies. We go to nuclear power. We develop automobiles that go 200 miles before you have to plug them in. We go to hybrids. We use ethanol. There's a broad array of steps we can take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Suppose we do these things and we're wrong about global warming. Then all we've done is given our children a cleaner world. But suppose we are right–that climate change is an urgent issue–and we do nothing. I think the consequences are obvious and would be devastating.
To a conservative, the consequences of the government mandates required to accomplish these things should be equally obvious and only slightly less devastating....
