I can see this happening by power companies charging higher rates to offset these costs but there is an easy way to fix this. Provide energy subsidies to the poor and average wage earners. At the same time, congress can break up the monopolies of power companies and allow competition. This will ultimately bring energy prices down. Once energy prices have reached a price stabalization we can start to phase out the energy subsidies
Soooo your idea is to tax Cap and trade for CO2 a non polluntant ] the poor…then tax the poor again to provide “subsidies” back to the poor???
What happened when Government “broke up” Ma Bell? Or The Cable Industry.?
vision2mobile.com/articles/2009/03/ma-bell-s-breakup-25-years-later-everything-old-i.aspx
They are dieing now…AND you want to burden them more?
If cap and trade provides a cleaner and healthier environment it will be worth the cost
Cap and trade isn’t about pollutants. It is a lie that has been sold… even Green Peace and World Wildlife Fund has spoken out about it.
If you wish to talk about pollutant control maybe we should investigate what exactly has been accomplished to control actual known pollutants in the USA and developed countries since 1985. Actual research needs to be done - because the AGW camp doesn’t want this known - they have tied ( to the average person ) the concept of Cap and Trade to limit CO2 as an environmental cause . That somehow CO2 is a pollutant ]. Remember CO2 is only considered a pollutant in the unproven hypothesis of AGW Models - NO PLACE in Nature is CO2 A pollutant.
An example: In 1985 Clean Coal Technology (CCT) Program. Since that time, the federal government has contributed more than $2 billion toward this program to make the burning of coal cleaner and safer. The coal industry has contributed more than $4 billion toward this goal. Resulting in 99 percent of the chemicals that can pollute the air and more than 95 percent of the chemicals that can cause acid rain are removed. AND Technology is continuing.
teachcoal.org/aboutcoal/articles/coalenv.html
. If the Church feels bad for these poor people let the church step up to the plate and help
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Did you think about this statement?
So the poor in developing countries sould not have education, hospitals, safe infrastructures, technologies, employment… All that require cheap energy?
More conspiracy theories huh?
I had hoped by now to enlighten.
I was accused of being economically motivated
Questioning my motives
Likely to be in supporting an intrinsic evil
Not addressing a poster
Your ad hominems toward me, have worked out - how?
I gave you two links…Did they write or say those words?
The UN Papers are here
scribd.com/doc/37169187/Austria-Retreat-Papers
The link to those papers was within this link ]
citizenlink.com/2010/09/09/united-nations‘new-plan-‘redistribute-wealth’-remove-sovereignty-barriers/
DID THE PAPERS CONTAIN THESE WORDS
Global Governance: “…the U.N. should be able to take the lead in setting the global agenda, engage effectively with other multinational and regional organizations, as well as civil society and non-state stakeholders, and transform itself into a tool to help implement the globally agreed objectives.”
Redistribution of Wealth: A drastic redistribution of global wealth, “nothing less than a fundamental transformation of the global economy.”…”The real challenge comes from the exponential growth of the global consumerist society driven by ever higher aspirations of the upper and middle layers in rich countries as well as the expanding demand of emerging middle-class in developing countries. Our true ambition should be therefore creating incentives for the profound transformation of attitudes and consumption styles.”
Climate Change: “…nothing is more crucial to preventing run-away climate change than lifting billions out of poverty, protecting our planet and fostering long-term peace and prosperity for all.”
Political Power Shifts: “Is the global governance structure, still dominated by national sovereignty, capable of responding with the coherence and speed needed? Or, do we need to push the ‘reset’ button and rethink global governance to meet the 50-50-50 Challenge?” which would provide clean water, food and energy to 50 percent more people, while reducing global emissions by 50 percent – all by 2050.
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