Articles tagged with: profit

And if Global Warming Turns Out to be a Myth, So What?
Posted in Economy, Global Warming Hoax Lead Story on 26 August 2008

I recently read a comment on the Internet from a global warming activist that presented that exact same connotation.  If global warming turns out to be a myth, so what?  The narrow-mindedness and intense focus of climate change proponents on one issue, global warming, has the potential to cause massive economic failures globally.  The lack [...]

How Much Has Been Spent on Global Warming?
Posted in Environmentalists on 18 August 2008

$50 billion dollars since 1990 and now $5 billion per year. With so many other life-saving opportunities that could be researched using $5 billion dollars annually, why is this money being spent on the global warming hoax? Must not be that much profit in immunizations for [...]

Gas Tax Could Be Devastating to New Brunswick Farmers
Posted in Economy on 7 August 2008

Running on already low profit margins, farmers in New Brunswick could find themselves struggling under a proposed carbon tax by Stephane Dion. Farmers also fear a stifled economy as businesses outside the agriculture sector are hit by the tax.
Source: timestranscript.canadaeast.com

Target Acquired and Destroyed
Posted in Carbon Tax on 5 August 2008

British Coal-fired power plant company Drax has had its profits plunge by almost half as it now has to pay carbon credits for being the largest single carbon polluting station. Drax spent 107 million pounds this year under the European emissions trading scheme when carbon allocations were reduced. The company paid about 11 [...]

Not Fair: DNC Committee Not Paying Gas Tax
Posted in Conspiracy on 23 July 2008

It seems the committee that’s putting together the Democratic National Convention hasn’t been paying federal and state gas tax for the last four months while in Denver.  While the committee is a non-profit organization, non-profits aren’t exempt from paying those taxes.  So while liberal Democrats are pushing desperately for carbon-cutting legistation (read:  future carbon tax), [...]

NYC to Spend $2.3 Billion to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Posted in Government Intervention on 8 July 2008

The city of New York plans to spend $2.3 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to this Yahoo News article.  The spending plan, aimed at government buildings only, will focus on replacing heating and cooling system and repairing methane leaks at water treatment plants to replacing street lights and buying more fuel-efficient cars.  It [...]

New Zealand Government’s Windfall Profits Carbon Tax
Posted in Carbon Tax on 16 June 2008

The government of New Zealand could get rich quick off a proposed emissions trading scheme, according to this article.  Depending on the cost of carbon credits, the government could receive anywhere from $21 billion to $42 billion over the next 20 years.  
Source: www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4586201a6009.html

Just Follow the Global Warming Green
Posted in Conspiracy on 22 May 2008

As the global warming hoax spreads around the world, it becomes more evident that some, besides Al Gore, stand to profit. This, from Source: MoonBattery.com, says GE is having its mercury-filled fluorescent light bulbs pushed by legislation at the federal level as well as NBC spewing the [...]

Global Warming Week-in-Review 5/18/2008
Posted in Commentary, Week-In-Review on 19 May 2008

Good morning, folks, and welcome to the Global Warming Week-in-Review.
Sunday, May 11th:
10ksnookers.blogspot.com provided some interesting commentary on carbon credits and the cap-and-trade system, saying that it’s just a government-sanctioned ration on goods and services?  How?  Both systems limit the total amount of greenhouse gas that can be emitted into the atmosphere, which results in a limit [...]

Gore tells Carnegie Mellon graduates they can become heroes
Posted in Al Gore on 18 May 2008

At a commencement speech at Carnegie Mellon, Al Gore told graduates that they could be part of the “hero generation” by solving environmental issues. Does being a hero involve making up a fake global environmental problem, instituting bogus taxes to curb lifestyles and profiting from investments [...]