"Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said President Barack Obama was likely to 'use the platform to renew his call for a national energy tax. And I'm sure he'll get loud cheers from liberal elites — from the kind of people who leave a giant carbon footprint and then lecture everybody else about low-flow toilets.'"
That's clever and not entirely unfair (he said from his private jet). But the same could be said of the jeers coming from the capitalist elite--the kind of people who get giant tax subsidies and then lecture everybody else about mooching off the system.
Ultimately, how do we get past the accusations of hypocrisy to address what are our biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, including those that are driven by the wealthy, such as air travel?
Thursday, May 8, 2014
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