Hillary's question asks:
"How can we as a country promote alternative energy, use less foreign oil and reduce global warming?"
Which she describes as:
"I have a plan to set up a Strategic Energy Fund using excess oil company profits to invest in alternative energy."
Who will define what is excess...her?
How can she call this gisnt forced handover of money a "promotion" of anything other than government bureaucracy?
How much money will she take from oil companies? Who will decide this, and what will Hillary do when oil companies have to lay off people?
How will she enforce the taking of legal profits? By men with guns?
Who will she give this money to, someone in government?
How is that someone in government so much more qualified than anyone else to use this money...and for what purpose...will it go the way of the Social Security "Trust Fund" (which, by the way, does not exist)?
Why does anybody endorse this crazy scheme?
2007-03-21 12:46:15 · 6 answers · asked by ? 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Vanilla Face, you did not include in your answer who decides how much emission constitutes a "cap." Nor did you say how that cap will be enforced (i.e. men with guns...that is how governments do their business when they decide to punish). Note that there is no "promotion" here, it is Hillary's euphemisn for "punish."
2007-03-21 13:36:18 · update #1
I took 2 years of acounting in college and I never heard the term excess profits....it sounds like an oxymoron to me....why the hell is it exxons problem what we are going to do about alt fuel sources...tehy are a damn oil company who has been supplying the world and america it's fuel for the last 50 years...
2007-03-21 13:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by Steelhead 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My thinking exactly. What right does the government have to declare any income as excess profits. What's next? Will they declare everybody's disposable income as excess income and take that as well?
She talking wealth redistribution, socialism plain and simple.
2007-03-21 15:19:59 · answer #2 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds cute but it is unworkable in reality. How does one define "excess" profits?
I'm all in favor of getting us off of fossil fuels but you are right to point out the logical fallacies in this big bunch of hot air Hillary is spouting.
2007-03-21 13:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They'll put a cap on carbon emissions....if it exceeds that amount that would be considered excessive. The climate scientists will develop the cap, not Hillary.
Exxon Mobil made 25 billion in profit last year....doubt they'll lay off anyone.
2007-03-21 12:50:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is private business and stockholders money...That is her Socialistic ideas....Steal from the rich and give to the poor....This ain't Merry Old England...
2007-03-21 12:50:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm sick and tired of her asking questions.
Why can't we ask her and make her take a stand on an issue?
Typical liberal
2007-03-21 12:50:33 · answer #6 · answered by John 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋