Sounds scientific

via ThinkProgress comes this little look into the House GOP group the Republican American Energy Solutions Group, aka oiloiloildrilldrilldrill, presenting its American Energy Act as a counter to Obama's poorly titled Un-American Energy Act, what with it's belief in climate change, clean energy, and pollution eating/gumdrop crapping unicorns. The House GOP is having none of that hippie shit.


Not only does it try to officially codify climate change as nonexistent (take that Al Gore), it attempts to prevent any regulation of any greenhouse gas, rolls back environmental protections, and give billions in tax breaks to the oil and coal industries. I guess "nothing to see here" and "let's do the same thing we always do" when combined together are...kind of a new solution. I guess this is a step forward, because at least they are recognizing the simple existence of greenhouse gases, if only to then quickly make it illegal to even consider doing something about it.

We're just lucky it didn't read something like this:

(b) IMPACT OF GREENHOUSE GASES...WHICH DO NOT EXIST.--We recognize that CO2 is something that humans breathe out and plants need to grow and stuff, and therefore a totally natural process gifted to us by the Baby Jesus. We hereby reclassify factory smokestacks as "industrial breathing" and make it illegal to regulate them in any way. Besides, how can Congress regulate God?

We dodged a bullet. This counts as scientific progress for the House GOP.