What was reported back in early March of this year.
“Large majorities of African Americans in all four states said they are willing to pay an extra $10 per month for electricity to combat global warming, the survey found. But the numbers drop off sharply if the hypothetical energy bills rise: Only about one in six of those surveyed said they would be willing to pay as much as $50 extra a month to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/03/poll-african-americans-will-pay-higher-energy-bills-to-reduce-global-warming/1“>My response here.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Leaders from African-American, Hispanic and senior citizen groups are blasting the appearance in South Carolina this week of officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because of the agency’s plans to impose a new carbon tax that will disproportionately hurt the state’s low-income families and working poor.
“These federal bureaucrats are coming to South Carolina to talk about ‘environmental justice’ when in fact they are peddling a brand of environmental injustice,” said Niger Innis, National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality and co-chair of the Affordable Power Alliance. “If these Washington politicians get their way, people all across South Carolina are going to pay more to heat and cool their homes, pay more for gasoline, pay more for groceries, pay more for medicine, pay more for all of the necessities of life.”
As long as taxes are affecting the other guy, nobody has a problem with it. However, take it out of the pocketbook of a family that is having a hard enough time keeping up with bills and all of a sudden it becomes something completely different.
I think what really gets me is all the yapping I keep hearing about environmental injustice against Black folks, not one person I have heard address this issue has the courage to tell these folks that their taxes are about to go up.
