Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada promised a thorough debate that will probably last through the week, if not longer. He said it’s clear that “global warming is real” and Congress must act.

But supporters of the bill acknowledged it will be difficult — perhaps impossible — to overcome a certain GOP filibuster threat against the legislation, meaning congressional action on global warming will probably be decided in the next Congress and by the next president.

Many of the GOP senators who voted to debate the issue have said they are opposed to the bill.

The Senate measure, which has wide Democratic and some Republican support, would cap U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, cutting them by 18 percent by 2020 and by two-thirds by mid-century. It would specifically target refineries, power plants, factories and transportation for 70 percent reductions and make emissions allowances available to be traded in an open market.

In other words, $4/gallon gas is just the beginning.  Here we have an imagined concept, man-made global warming (by the way, the last two years have been cooler than the previous 20, and the years before the previous 20 were cooler too, causing fears of global cooling) and it’s going to lead congressional lemmings to drive up our costs for everything while we are surpassed by the likes of China.  Time to go learn Chinese.

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