Sarah Palin's Flip-Flop on Cap-and-Trade

Since Sarah Palin announced that she’d be resigning her post as Alaska’s governor (16 month early) a couple of weeks ago, she’s made it clear that she plans to spend more time traveling around the lower 48 states. True to task, on Tuesday Palin had an oped in the Washington Post articulating her opposition to President Obama’s energy plan which includes a cap-and-trade program that would allow industrial sources to buy and sell pollution permits.

But it looks like she’s a little unclear on what her policy positions are. During the campaign, McCain-Palin campaign literature (check it out below) and the candidate herself (see the video) sang a totally different tune.

McCain-Palin said climate change was one of our biggest challenges:

THEN: “Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges confronting our country and our world today. We must act now to meet this challenge.”

NOW: She doesn’t even mention climate change her piece in the Post.

McCain-Palin proposed a market based cap-and-trade program to address climate change:

THEN: “They [McCain-Palin] have proposed a cap-and-trade system that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions while encouraging the development of low-cost compliance options. A climate cap-and-trade mechanism would set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and allow entities to buy and sell rights to emit, similar to the successful acid rain trading program of the early 1990s. The key feature of this mechanism is that it allows the market to decide and encourage the lowest-cost compliance options.”

NOW: Palin wants to “…responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil” and drill in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

McCain-Palin said a market-based system would strengthen our economy:

THEN: ”John McCain and Sarah Palin will establish a market-based system to curb greenhouse gas emissions, mobilize innovative technologies, and strengthen the economy.”

NOW: Palin claims, cap-and-trade (which is part of President Obama’s plan) “…is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.”

Palin has been spending more time in the lower 48. Maybe she's been taking lessons from Mitt Romney?

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That's because Palin can't tell the difference between cap and trade and cap and gown. She went to so many colleges that she never quit figured out anything.

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SandyH on July 21, 2009 at 02:34 PM

I find it amazing how none of the Republican trolls, ever come into these side threads and debate or defend the point!

Could it be they are here merely to attack, and not to debate as they so vehemently screech? That not enough hatred comes out of their hearts in simply debating the facts? Or is it that they have no facts period and have to agree that Sarah Palin is nothing more than just another corrupt Republican polician ?

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PamB on July 22, 2009 at 08:09 AM

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