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Originally posted by: ricarleiteQuote
Originally posted by: JediSageQuote
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
If you really understand the Kyoto protocol then you should be glad we broke it. If it destroyed the US economy, it would affect Brazil too, you know.
Yeah, good point Chaltab. How much oil does Brazil export annualy? And BTW Ricar...we didn't "break" the treaty, we just refuse to participate in it because it's ill-concieved and hides another more insidious agenda, ie: wealth redistribution.
OK how would the Kyoto protocol destroy USA's economy? How?
Brazil? Exporting oil? Almost none, Petrobras pretty much covers only Brazil itself. I think they supply some to Argentina or Mexico, but very little of it.
The Clinton administration had signed the treaty, and the Bush administration steped back. So I consider it "breaking" it.
I don't think the US Senate ever approved it, so in the strictest sense we never signed it. That's the way treaties are supposed to work in the US, which sadly is not the way it does happen most of the time, regardless of who's in the White House. Senate approval is supposed to allow the people a voice in what jokes we get tied to, like the WTO, NAFTA, etc; If the President wants to do it, he needs to get 51 senators to sign off (assuming it doesn't need a "super" majority).