Shorter Robert J. Samuelson:

Stop worrying about Global Warming because:

• "We lack the technology to get from here to there."
• "In the United States, it would take massive regulations, higher energy taxes or both."
• "[U.S.] assaults against global warming are likely to be symbolic, ineffective or both."
• "We simply don't have a solution for this problem."

However,

"To cut oil imports, I support a higher gasoline tax -- $1 to $2 a gallon, introduced gradually ..."

Why? Is it to use a regressive consumption tax to pay for "the huge retirement costs of baby boomers" now that Bush's tax cuts for the rich make redeeming the $1.9 trillion special-issue Treasury bonds much more difficult?


posted by Quiddity at 8/15/2007 02:10:00 AM