Letters to the Editor
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Under Ron Paul: Chris Sinnard's actionable energy use
Chris,
Please have your people contact my people. Your energy use while composing that last post (and the resulting carbon dioxide production) has resulted in a marginal increase in global temperatures and a marginal increase in the likelyhood of huricane damage to my property (an automobile) in New England. This has lowered the net value of my vehicle.
Under Ron Paul's vision for environmental protection, I should be able to sue you for this damage. I imagine my lawyer will say you should owe me .0000000002 cents, and your lawyer will suggest it's more like .0000000001 cents, but I'm willing to take it to a jury. Once that's been settled, I'm going to sue everyone else who uses energy, and then they'll probably want to sue me. Each jury will find a slightly different amount of damage for each gallon of gas used or for each kiloWatt, but that's the way it goes. Hopefully, my lawyers will be the best.
It's a shame we couldn't have a federal (or, God-forbid, international) agency to figure out the net (financial!) damage done by burning gasoline or using electricity and assessing some sort of carbon tax, but I'm pretty sure the founding fathers would prefer that we sue each other.