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To: Mad Matty Morris who wrote (260476)	5/20/2009 1:53:51 PM
From: tecate78732	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Stop your nonsensical ravings, is there any reason why the US has to mirror the EU in every way? europeancourier.org EU HYPOCRISY But if the ideological bent of EU philosophy is happy to threaten the global competitiveness of its own ‘capitalist’ success stories, it has not stopped the EU acting with unmitigated pragmatic hypocrisy when it suits. Many governments are finding it difficult to ‘square the circle’ and marry preferred new energy policies and aspirational climate targets. But the EU’s own failure to achieve coherent energy and climate policies has not stopped it from persistently berating the US for its failure to ratify Kyoto – even though, in practice, no major economy has carried through on its Kyoto commitments. That’s because the EU seems more interested in getting America to do penance for being the world’s leading carbon dioxide ‘polluter’ – and bankrupt itself in the process. The fact that the link between carbon dioxide and temperature rises is mere theory has not prevented the EU from designating CO2 Public Enemy No 1. Of course, the chief culprit in producing carbon emissions is the burning of fossil fuel, more specifically, coal. King Coal, however, is currently making a revolutionary comeback with a whole new generation of coal-fired, carbon emitting power plants being built across Europe – and, perversely, with the EU’s blessing. The EU will tell us that it will insist on carbon capture or sequestration facilities (adding a billion dollars of extra cost for which yet more public funding may be made available) being a precondition for the building of such plants. But the reality is that carbon sequestration is by and large yet another political slogan. Storing CO2 below ground is far more difficult and an extra-ordinarily more expensive process than has been and how do you know anyone is rotting in the USA? certainly we can create better products and aren't inbred :)