5 governors agree to work on climate

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By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer

Governors from five Western states agreed Monday to work together to reduce greenhouse gases, saying their region has suffered some of the worst of global warming with recent droughts and bad fire seasons.

The governors of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington state agreed that they would develop a regional target to lower greenhouse gases and create a program aimed at helping businesses reach the still-undecided goals.

"In the absence of meaningful federal action, it is up to the states to take action to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in this country," said Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat. "Western states are being particularly hard-hit by the effects of climate change."

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said a so-called cap-and-trade program, which lets companies that can't meet their emission reduction targets buy credits from those that reduce carbon dioxide, would provide "a powerful framework for developing a national cap-and-trade program. ... This agreement shows the power of states to lead our nation addressing climate change."

The agreement — called the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative — builds on earlier efforts by several states.

Last year, Schwarzenegger signed California legislation imposing a first-in-the-nation emissions cap on utilities, refineries and manufacturing plants, with a goal of cutting greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020. And Schwarzenegger and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced plans to work toward a possible joint emissions-trading market.

New Mexico and Arizona last year agreed to work to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions. A similar joint effort on climate change was agreed upon in 2003 by California, Oregon and Washington.

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The new Democratic Governor of Massachusetts is not interested. In fact he just bought a new Cadillac Deville with taxpayer money. Just another Limousine Liberal.

Deval Patrick is now called CoupeDeval.

http://coupedeval.com/

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The new Democratic Governor of Massachusetts is not interested. In fact he just bought a new Cadillac Deville with taxpayer money. Just another Limousine Liberal.

Deval Patrick is now called CoupeDeval.

http://coupedeval.com/

lolz

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The new Democratic Governor of Massachusetts is not interested. In fact he just bought a new Cadillac Deville with taxpayer money. Just another Limousine Liberal.

Deval Patrick is now called CoupeDeval.

http://coupedeval.com/

Which shows climate change isn't a partisan issue nor should it be. BTW, Arnold is a Republican and he drives a Hummer.

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Gotta love those, 'Do as I say, not as I do', people.

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Hummmm, I wonder what Al Gore drives!

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Hummmm, I wonder what Al Gore drives!

His big , fat , Marxist ego.

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Hummmm, I wonder what Al Gore drives!

a lexus hybrid!

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Hummmm, I wonder what Al Gore drives!

I just heard that Al Gore spent $30,000 on electricity alone last year. Hmmm what's his carbon footprint?

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Hummmm, I wonder what Al Gore drives!

I just heard that Al Gore spent $30,000 on electricity alone last year. Hmmm what's his carbon footprint?

Dasm! That's 200 x my peak summer electric bill.

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Hummmm, I wonder what Al Gore drives!

I just heard that Al Gore spent $30,000 on electricity alone last year. Hmmm what's his carbon footprint?

Dasm! That's 200 x my peak summer electric bill.

But he's Al Gore...and you're not!

When was the last time you won an Oscar?

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Hummmm, I wonder what Al Gore drives!

I just heard that Al Gore spent $30,000 on electricity alone last year. Hmmm what's his carbon footprint?

Source?

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arnold always drives a hummer since they came out...so, they both are chopf##ks

Hummmm, I wonder what Al Gore drives!

I just heard that Al Gore spent $30,000 on electricity alone last year. Hmmm what's his carbon footprint?

Source?

full story here, exerpt below

Feb. 26, 2007 — Back home in Tennessee, safely ensconced in his suburban Nashville home, Vice President Al Gore is no doubt basking in the Oscar awarded to "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary he inspired and in which he starred. But a local free-market think tank is trying to make that very home emblematic of what it deems Gore's environmental hypocrisy.

Armed with Gore's utility bills for the last two years, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research charged Monday that the gas and electric bills for the former vice president's 20-room home and pool house devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006, more than 20 times the national average of 10,656 kilowatt-hours.

"If this were any other person with $30,000-a-year in utility bills, I wouldn't care," says the Center's 27-year-old president, Drew Johnson. "But he tells other people how to live and he's not following his own rules."

Scoffed a former Gore adviser in response: "I think what you're seeing here is the last gasp of the global warming skeptics. They've completely lost the debate on the issue so now they're just attacking their most effective opponent."

Kalee Kreider, a spokesperson for the Gores, did not dispute the Center's figures, taken as they were from public records.

druge report breakdown here

Edited February 27, 2007 by LisaD

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or here's the google link...pick from any number of sources:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&cli...amp;btnG=Search