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Posted by David Roberts at 9:04 PM on 30 Jan 2008

"... there are a number of pieces of legislation where [McCain's] views are out of the mainstream, at least in my view, of conservative Republican thought. So, for instance, he's opposed to drilling in ANWR, I believe. ...

...

And then now McCain-Lieberman, which is a unilateral -- meaning U.S.-only imposed -- cap-and-trade program, which puts a burden, as much as 50 cents a gallon, on gasoline in this country. It basically says Americans are going to pay for the cost of global warming, not the Chinese and Indians and forth.

So those views are outside the mainstream of Republican conservative thought."

-- Mitt Romney, attacking John McCain as a closet environmentalist

Not a "us or them" problem, I suppose

Does it make good sense to suggest that those corporations and industries found to be responsible for polluting the environment during the 20th would be held accountable AND those big-businesses responsible for polluting the Earth and its atmosphere in the  21st century would pay the costs of their actions going forward?

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population, established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/

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