Our favorite climate skeptic Sen. James Inhofe keeps proving there’s no sewer he won’t crawl through. A permanent pariah. Witness this wonderful exchange from Grist:

Q. How do you respond to major industry leaders who say climate legislation is going to create jobs, not kill them, net total?






















A. I don’t agree with that. Always look at the motives people have. There are a lot of companies that would do very well [if greenhouse-gas regulations were enacted]. General Electric. I better not start naming them. But we had a hearing on USCAP, [a coalition of] corporations that were embracing some variation of cap-and-trade. We checked and found out that all 15 or so of them had stood to make huge amounts of money if they could get cap-and-trade. So that’s my comment about that.

Q. So you believe these companies and their leaders are going along with a massive fraud that will destroy the economy in order to make money themselves.

A. It would be very damaging to the economy. I think that most of the people who don’t have a dog in this fight, people who are just looking at it, economists looking to see how destructive it would be, come to the conclusion that it would be destructive.

Full post HERE.

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