I came across this article this evening and blood shot out of my eyes as I strained to understand WTF.  I am going to include the entire article.  It is short enough and I have comments on every part of it.

From the New York Times (figures):

Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say
By SINDYA N. BHANOO

To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

So, to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets put forward by the Church of Global Warming, we have to drive our economy into the shitter?  You all remember what happened when gas was $4.00 a gallon.

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

According to them, the cost of driving must more then double to reduce emissions by fourteen percent?  Do you get that? 

To reduce emissions by 14%… Fuel prices must go up by 105%? Wait the what?

The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.

In their study, the researchers devised several combinations of steps that United States policymakers might take in trying to address the heat-trapping emissions by the nation’s transportation sector, which consume 70 percent of the oil used in the United States.

Most of their models assumed an economy-wide carbon dioxide tax starting at $30 a ton in 2010 and escalating to $60 a ton in 2030. In some cases researchers also factored in tax credits for electric and hybrid vehicles, taxes on fuel or both.

In the modeling, it turned out that issuing tax credits could backfire, while taxes on fuel proved beneficial.

There we go.  That’s it.  That’s what it comes down to.  Taxes.  Taxes = Control.  How do you get the price of fuel up 105% artificially?  Tax it.  And if they tax the frack out of us, their power grows.  Amazing when only (according to the WRI, a source that is a member of the Church) 9.9% of all world Greenhouse Gas (Read CO2) emissions are from road transportation.

“Tax credits don’t address how much people use their cars,” said Ross Morrow, one of the report’s authors. “In reverse, they can make people drive more.”

Dr. Morrow, formerly a fellow at the Belfer Center, is a professor of mechanical engineering and economics at Iowa State University

Researchers said that vehicle miles traveled will increase by more than 30 percent between 2010 and 2030 unless policymakers increase fuel taxes.

And this illustrates even more what they would do.  Taking money out of my pocket and putting it into someone else’s for following their religion isn’t enough to help.  Environmental Communism alone won’t cut it.  They need more.

At no time will any of these “fixes” ever… ever call for a reduction in government power or control.  The Church of Global Warming will use everything they can as an excuse to take power from you in the name of their “God”.  This is the same story told time and time again through history. 

They can help you, but first you must give up everything.

++ungood