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.

Source: Down to Earth

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