amicus
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In the news of late, already in place in some Euro nations, it will affect you, it is a tax.
Each and every energy producer that burns carbon; coal, oil, gas, will be forced to 'buy' from the Government a 'credit' for a certain amount of carbon emissions.
The money spent by these energy producers will be paid by the consumer, which means your fuel costs will increase across the board.
That is the 'Cap' portion. The 'Trade' portion will enrich Chicago based 'traders' who will profit from arranging 'trades' between energy companies that produce less carbon than expected and those that produce more and need extra, 'credits'.
The government benefits from the money paid by industry, and the 'traders' benefit from fees charged for transactions; everyone else loses. And there is no scientific basis that man made CO2 affects the atmosphere or the weather.
The 'why' of the entire cape and trade scam, and it is a scam, goes back to the 60's, the environmental activists who wished to preserve the wilderness, for wilderness' sake, limit growth and the population. It was first the alarm against polluting the planet, then Global Cooling, caused by man, then the Ozone Crisis, caused by man and finally the global warming farce, also caused by man (so they claim but cannot prove).
It is the anti-industrial left in full blown opposition against modern society, business, industry and Capitalism in general.
And now they have a 'believer' in the Bully Pulpit of the White House and an effort by G20 nations to globalize the assault on the free market and Representative Government.
Those taxes on oil, coal and gas fired plants that create electricity, plus the new 'Energy' program from Washington that will not approve new generating plants of any kind, including nuclear and hydro, will create a second wave of the energy crisis as electricity will become more expensive and rationed to consumers because the supply will not meet the demand.
The 'dream' of the activist environmental left, is that a combination of all the 'green' alternative energy sources is that they will fill the gap left by the forced decline of petroleum based energy.
It will not and can not, even by the wildest speculations, produce the amount of energy required by modern societies.
The 'greenies' say good! We use too much energy anyway. You should walk, or ride bicycles. Recycle, re-use, not eat out, even at McDonalds, devolve the modern industrial society to pre industrial revolution levels.
You won't feel the effects today, unless you are invested in the market and energy stocks, but you will, next year and for decades.
Fully half of all electricity generated in the US is by coal fired plants, but coal is, 'off the table' as a solution to creating more electricity, says the Messiah from on High.
Good luck America, the world....you're gonna need it.
As an afterthought, some of you folks have been without electricity during storms this winter. How did you like it?
Amicus...
Each and every energy producer that burns carbon; coal, oil, gas, will be forced to 'buy' from the Government a 'credit' for a certain amount of carbon emissions.
The money spent by these energy producers will be paid by the consumer, which means your fuel costs will increase across the board.
That is the 'Cap' portion. The 'Trade' portion will enrich Chicago based 'traders' who will profit from arranging 'trades' between energy companies that produce less carbon than expected and those that produce more and need extra, 'credits'.
The government benefits from the money paid by industry, and the 'traders' benefit from fees charged for transactions; everyone else loses. And there is no scientific basis that man made CO2 affects the atmosphere or the weather.
The 'why' of the entire cape and trade scam, and it is a scam, goes back to the 60's, the environmental activists who wished to preserve the wilderness, for wilderness' sake, limit growth and the population. It was first the alarm against polluting the planet, then Global Cooling, caused by man, then the Ozone Crisis, caused by man and finally the global warming farce, also caused by man (so they claim but cannot prove).
It is the anti-industrial left in full blown opposition against modern society, business, industry and Capitalism in general.
And now they have a 'believer' in the Bully Pulpit of the White House and an effort by G20 nations to globalize the assault on the free market and Representative Government.
Those taxes on oil, coal and gas fired plants that create electricity, plus the new 'Energy' program from Washington that will not approve new generating plants of any kind, including nuclear and hydro, will create a second wave of the energy crisis as electricity will become more expensive and rationed to consumers because the supply will not meet the demand.
The 'dream' of the activist environmental left, is that a combination of all the 'green' alternative energy sources is that they will fill the gap left by the forced decline of petroleum based energy.
It will not and can not, even by the wildest speculations, produce the amount of energy required by modern societies.
The 'greenies' say good! We use too much energy anyway. You should walk, or ride bicycles. Recycle, re-use, not eat out, even at McDonalds, devolve the modern industrial society to pre industrial revolution levels.
You won't feel the effects today, unless you are invested in the market and energy stocks, but you will, next year and for decades.
Fully half of all electricity generated in the US is by coal fired plants, but coal is, 'off the table' as a solution to creating more electricity, says the Messiah from on High.
Good luck America, the world....you're gonna need it.
As an afterthought, some of you folks have been without electricity during storms this winter. How did you like it?
Amicus...
