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Tree Huggers Reduce Tax Revenues Across The Country

who'd of thunk it . . .

It's finally happening, Americans are driving less and do so in more fuel efficient cars and we have our friends in the Environmentalist Wacko movement to thank. Yes, they have finally gotten what they have dreamed of for years, heck generations.

I think we can all agree that it's good that we are improving our fuel efficiency, I don't think anyone quibbles with that goal.

Now, I'm sure what is coming as quite a shock to our friends on the Left is that they also are responsible for cutting tax receipts through their efforts! Yes, let that one sink in for a second. The Left who worship at the alter of the almighty Tax Increase reduced tax receipts? 

You see automobiles are more fuel-efficient, people are driving less and, increasingly in many parts of the country, they are driving automobiles that aren’t powered by petroleum at all. The result is less fuel being used consequently less tax being paid. Add in the Obama-economic-malaise that we are still in and you will find states across the country and Mr. Obama's and his Democrats in Congress scrambling in the wake of large revenue shortfalls into the various state and federal highway coffers.

So what an interesting web we weave. The Left pushes for efficiency never realizing that in doing so it reduces the mother's milk of it's movement - TAX RECEIPTS.

So it will be interesting to watch the Left's allies in Washington and throughout the state legislatures try to find a solution to this revenue shortfall. In Washington, they might want to start by ending the current diversion of 25% of the gas-tax funds to non-highway building projects such as Amtrak and metro busing; streetcar and subway budgets. These are all local responsibilities not federal but then again, Obama and the Dems think everything is Federal because they are smarter than the rest of local folk.

How ironic this all is.

The map below is from last fall. I would imagine that some of these numbers have increased as state legislatures try to find ways to close the fiscal deficits that each is facing.

A Stake In the Heart of Global-warmists

it's snowed for four straight days in eastern Nebraska . . .

This is the most prolonged snow season that I've ever seen in our area and I'm having a very hard time rationalizing all of this cold and snow vs the book of Irrationality in the religion of Global Warming.

Then again, with all the scandal out there over Global Warming, maybe there is no need to try and rationalize it. Just take a read on the latest upheaval in the religion of Global Warming as seen in the The Globe and Mail out of Canada. 

From Sunday's Omaha World-Herald and cartoonist Jeff Koterba:

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

How Long Does It Take for a Global Warmist To Freeze Solid?

ok, even we are getting tired of this . . . 

High today: 0

Windchill in eastern Nebraska: -22

Winds out of the North: 35 - 50 mph ALL DAY

Low tonight: -15

High on Friday: below zero

Low Friday night: -25

WANTED: Global Warmist and tree hunging types

EXPERIMENT: See how long these yahoos are willing to stand outside today on the principle that Global Warming is settled science

Here's an article you will want to read that is in the Omaha World-Herald this morning entitled, "A Persistent Polar Pattern". 

A couple highlights:

A little-understood Arctic phenomenon may be behind the worst winter conditions in a quarter-century across much of the United States, near record lows in Omaha and misery from northern Europe to Asia.

There is more snow on the ground, 21 inches, than in any January since 1948 — the earliest date for which reliable snow records are available.

The average temperature in Omaha for the first five days of the year has been 3.1 degrees, the third-lowest on record dating to the late 1800s.

And on Friday, Omaha's daytime high isn't expected to climb above zero. That hasn't happened since 1997, said Ken Dewey, an applied climatologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's School of Natural Resources.

But as bad as the Midlands weather has been, the southern United States might be faring worse because that region is less accustomed to the cold, said Eric Wilhelm, a meteorologist for AccuWeather Inc., The World-Herald's consultant.

The Arctic Oscillation involves atmospheric circulation over the polar region, and its intensity is the strongest in decades, meteorologists say.

And then let me throw this last one at you: "Michelle L'Heureux, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center, said the Arctic Oscillation is one of the least understood weather patterns and is difficult to predict."

Really? In 2010, we can not predict the weather? Hmmm, could it be that Global Warming ISN'T settled science after all?

Say it ain't so Al . . .