The Hill: Huntsman on past cap-and-trade support: Everyone was doing it

[flpoljunkie]

Huntsman on past cap-and-trade support: Everyone was doing it
By Ben Geman
06/22/11

Republican White House hopeful Jon Huntsman has found a way to explain his embrace of cap-and-trade when he was governor of Utah: Everyone was doing it.

Huntsman backed cap-and-trade last decade as a way to curb greenhouse gas emissions, but distanced himself from it in an interview Wednesday, casting it as a policy solution from another era.

“Every governor was talking about dealing with emissions back many, many years ago only to find that with the economic implosion, we can't afford anything that is going to put any kind of hamper on economic growth. So cap-and-trade is not something that is viable today,” Huntsman told Fox News.

“Everybody talked about it. At least a lot of people did, consulting with CEOs, consulting with all the experts. Everyone took it seriously,” he said.

As governor, Huntsman signed on in 2007 to a program among Western states and Canadian provinces called the Western Climate Initiative aimed at cutting regional greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020.



http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/167925-huntsman-cap-and-trade-at-odds-with-todays-reality

[FSogol]

1. If every GOP clown ran for President, would you? Oh, you would?

What about the jumping off the cliff part?
:shrug:

[Drunken Irishman]

2. 'Many, many years ago' is more than 20 years, Hunty, not 4 years, you dip...

Nice try, though.

[bhikkhu]

3. I don't know much about Huntsman, but he seems sane

and thoughtful, and possibly even a good person. As such, I expect to see the GOP to make throwing him to the wolves their first order of business.

[CTyankee]

4. My kids used this excuse! How LAME is that!

Really!

Geez, I went thru that when my kids were adolescents!

This guy can't come up with something better than THIS?