Where Does Fred Thompson Stand On The Environment?
Posted in green marketing, global warmingFinally Law and Order star and Senator Fred Thompson has done what we all knew he would do sooner or later…he’s officially thrown his hat into the Presidential election ring. You can bet that with Fred popping up on TV at least 10 times a day (more if you count those TNT marathons), he’s going to see a huge jump in the polls simply because people already know who he is and in today’s world that’s the biggest half of the battle. But where does Thompson stand on the issues?Treehugger recently quoted Thompson speaking on environmental concerns by saying:
“Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. … NASA says the Martian South Pole’s ‘ice cap’ has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter’s caught the same cold, because it’s warming up too, like Pluto. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, nonsignatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their airconditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.
If you can make any sense of the above it would seem to imply that Fred has zero belief in Global Warming which some scientist are predicting could be only a few years away. How about his voting record? Here’s how Fred voted on a few recent issues:
- Voted YES on drilling ANWR on national security grounds. (Apr 2002)
- Voted YES on terminating CAFE standards within 15 months. (Mar 2002)
- Voted YES on preserving budget for ANWR oil drilling. (Apr 2000)
- Voted NO on ending discussion of CAFE fuel efficiency standards. (Sep 1999)
- Voted YES on defunding renewable and solar energy. (Jun 1999)
- Voted YES on approving a nuclear waste repository. (Apr 1997)
- Voted YES on transportation demo projects. (Mar 1998)
- Voted YES on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests
To me this says it all. Does America really want another person in power that has zero concern for the current state of the environment we live in?
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