What is Cap & Trade?

President Obama has mentioned cap and trade several times in context with how we can begin to address climate change and reduce carbon emissions. National Wildlife Federation's Senior Vice President Jeremy Symons explains the how and the why.

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[egn83b]

Green = Greed

Global warming is the feeling in algores shorts pocket when there money in it.

[greyantelope]

Just and other tax on working Americans hidden in the cloak of moral high ground. This is simply one more stepping stone along the path to a one world government. It would be far more effective to require government employees to car pool and reduce the number of government vehicles to serve as a laboratory for reducing unnecessary commuter consumption of petroleum products.

[Rorschach65]

Propaganda. More money and government power, please.

[mrhoffame]

They ALL fail to mention with C and T crap is that there is NO "limit" to the amount of gas that is put out. After you hit a certain limit you either buy credits from another company OR you pay taxes on the excess you put out above your limit. I.E. companys will go over limits and simply pass the cost to consumers. In turn the poorer among us can't afford as much "stuff". So let's just skip all the crap and take away from poor peoples ability to consume right now..problem sovled.

[supressorgrid]

After the roads were built, what became of the road builders? Besides the fact that my 80 thousand pound truck causes a lot of road wear compared to two thousand years of pedestrian use. Or are you saying any one that cant afford the best must do without and walk?

[therrydicule]

@supressorgrid The problem is everybody own a Lada. When a Pontiac G6 have brake rotor problems after less than 5 years :D And look the devaluation; 100km and most car lose 35% of value. Piece of...

Simply put, if one start to use more durable goods, he'll need a smaller supply of some goods: do you need to rebuilt the road in Pompeii every 30 years? No, in fact some of them are two millenniums old! If the fucking Roman where able to do that, we could do a lot better that what we are doing...

[supressorgrid]

@therrydicule Also in my world every one can afford a Lada. In your's no one can own a Mercedes.

[supressorgrid]

@therrydicule My statement is sound. The price of pot reflects the cost of getting it to the consumer.Legalize it and the price falls. The .60 radio is worth all you pay for it. The dollar store reflects that someone could supply something at the cost of a dollar and still make a profit.Those getting the screw with the 50 cent per hour job at least have a job.

[therrydicule]

@supressorgrid Sir, your statement is wrong. 1st: Ask teens in hi-school parking@4:30, where you could get some pot :D Drugs law are the harder punishment on the quantity supply EVER! But, there is some supply of drug. 2nd: Quantity is not all... I could buy 250 radio at $0.60...All of them are piece of crap 3rd: When you go to a dollar store, it's clear that not all is transmitted trough the price. Someone just got screw, like some land lord before the agrarian reform in the middle-ages...

[supressorgrid]

@therrydicule What supply? There is no supply when those that produce the supply are punished for doing so, while at the same time the consumers are punished for buying what little is availible. The only winners are those that do nothing and are granted the resorces through government entitlements. Makers lose, takers win.

[therrydicule]

@supressorgrid Not that simply. You forget a few things: quality of supply - o.k, sure, you got less car produce, but if it goes from some Lada to a Mercedes quality with an engine that is good for a million KM before changing the piston? In that case, it would also change some expectation about car, and reduce the demand (playing on the price).

Technology use? With some particular set of technology, it might be cheaper to produce something.

You also forget the elasticity of supply.

[melto42]

Cap!

Don't trade!