US refuses to speed up climate efforts

The EU as well as China and India are asking, so this isn’t just an issue of developing nations wanting a competitive edge. But, while the EU has already pledged a 20 percent cut of 1990 carbon-dioxide levels, the US still won’t go beyond 3 percent, and the Obama Administration seems determined to kick more serious efforts down the road.

True, the Obama Administration’s new CAFÉ standards may help, but only if you get the American driving public to buy those cars. Again, I say, contra Meteor Blades the Kossack and others, we need to raise the gas tax.

Oh, and conservatives’ bullshit that it would wreck our manufacturing? What manufacturing? You outsourced much of it already, along with neolib Dems, through “free trade” agreements.