What do you know of Cap & Trade?  It sounds like trading something that doesn’t exist to someone who can’t use it; with the cost of this item being paid by anone who actually makes something or does something real in this country.

I heard that the big promoter and instigator of the idea was a coumpany that has specialized in making money off of people who have done something and those need something; without really having to do anything themselves.  That is our friends at ENRON!  Any info? 

I guess the others who can benefit are the politician who can receive benefits from the lobyists who are working for those promoters of this nebulous idea.

Howdy!  I hadn’t heard of “Cap and Trade” before, but it looks like “Carbon Credits” under a different guize.  The curious bit about it is the whole concept is presumably tied to a market approach.  That’s why it is supposed to work because ‘the market’ makes everything work better.

However, there isn’t really a market - just some entity given the authority to determine cap limits and the value of reduction (essentially the pretend versions of supply and demand).  My initial take is that this is a crock hidden behind fancy economic diagrams.  The only way for it to work is for the governing authority to have supreme power, which pretty much guarantees corruption - and will it work on the heavy polluters who refuse to be governed (like China)?

It’s feel good conservation theory. (At least that’s my take from a quick read of how it works.)

I’m still here!!!! YAY!!!!

Howdy szd!