Bernie Sanders double-play: Ban fracking and add a carbon tax

[Brian4Liberty]

Inside Bernie Sanders’ Hidden Tax On Energy
By Michael Bastasch - 04/13/2016

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders recently told supporters in New York he would impose a nationwide ban on hydraulic fracturing — a ban that would effectively wipe out the $120 billion in savings Americans saw at the pumps last year.
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While Sanders has long been opposed to fracking, this is a new addition to his campaign stump speech. Sanders added a fracking ban to his platform while talking to voters in New York, where fracking is banned, and Pennsylvania, where the well-stimulation technique is opposed by environmentalists.
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But his support for a fracking ban would likely undo one of the greatest benefits of the U.S. oil boom: low gasoline prices.

Americans saved $120 billion at the pump in 2015 because of historically low gas prices. That comes out to about $565 in savings per licensed driver, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA).

“Today’s gas price savings are even more significant when compared to a few years ago. For example, the most expensive first quarter ever was in 2012, when prices averaged $3.58 per gallon,” according to AAA. “In comparison to that quarter, Americans have saved about $50 billion or $240 per licensed driver during the first three months this year.”
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Sanders doesn’t seem to care. In fact, the Vermont lawmaker wants fossil fuel energy to be more expensive so people use less and, instead, use more green energy from solar panels and wind turbines.

In fact, Sanders has proposed taxing carbon dioxide emissions from oil, gas and coal — which make up most of America’s energy supply — as a way to raise government revenue and curb global warming.

The senator’s tax plan includes a carbon tax that starts at $15 per ton and rises to $73 per ton in 2035. Taken in total, Sanders tax plan would cause the average American to lose 12.4 percent of their after-tax income in 2017.
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More: http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/13/inside-bernie-sanders-hidden-tax-on-energy/

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Some Sander's supporters think that Bernie will give them free stuff. Sorry, these taxes are regressive, which means they will hit the lower and middle classes harder than the ultra-wealthy. If energy costs such as gasoline skyrocket, who it will it effect more? A working class commuter, or a billionaire driving a Hummer?

 

[hells_unicorn]

Some Sander's supporters think that Bernie will give them free stuff. Sorry, these taxes are regressive, which means they will hit the lower and middle classes harder than the ultra-wealthy. If energy costs such as gasoline skyrocket, who it will it effect more? A working class commuter, or a billionaire driving a Hummer?

The people supporting Bernie will probably argue that the "working class commuter" who votes correctly will reap all the government benefits, whereas the cracker right-wingers who get hit by this deserve to suffer. These people are not to be reasoned with, for such a thing is impossible, they must simply be defeated and marginalized completely out of the entire political process.

Honestly, Hillary's man-hating feminist supporters scare me less than Bernie's drones.

 

[alucard13mm]

If global warming is such a threat and that carbon dioxide is so terrible... why doesn't the USA tell China to stop spewing all the CO2 and if global warming was so deadly... we would go to war with China to stop it.

Haha