Commerce Secretary: Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions

Not only do we send the jobs overseas, but as American taxpayers we also get to pay for the emissions they release in other countries. It's all about the globalist sticking it to the Americans to destroy our Republic and enrich their banks/corporations. Just another another colossal scam perpetrated on the American people. Neil


Keith Johnson
The Wall Street Journal
July 19, 2009

With the U.S. secretaries of energy and commerce in China this week, much of the attention focused on the standoff over emissions reductions or small breakthroughs in clean-tech cooperation.

But yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. From Reuters:

“It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

The idea that rich-country consumers should pick up the tab for some of China’s industrial emissions has been gaining currency lately—but not from within the Obama administration. The argument is that many of China’s factories churn out cheap stuff for the West, not for domestic consumption, so those consumers are actually responsible for the emissions. China, of course, loves the idea.