Freedoms Truth

2009: The Year of the Carbon Market

" I prefer to inform anyone who is interested that the carbon tax is best because it might be possible to eventually get a large part of it back to the people who pay it."

Yes, I too have come to that realization as well. Let us not discount the corruption malfeasance that can flow from cap-and-trade. Politicians, ie people like Gov Blagovich, just found selling a US Senate seat, will be in charge of writing the legislation and decide who gets the cap-and-trade 'credits'. the picking of winners and losers is a trillion-dollar corruption oppty. Ex-Enron traders and the recently bailed-out wall st crowd will be in charge of trading these credits. There are so many ways for the 'little guy' to get the short end of the stick, its a surprise we dont have any of them saying "Hey, I can take the extra 1 degree warming thank you, just leave my electric bill alone."

As for:
"Personally, I don't know, but both presidential candidates in the US thought that there was, and so there is no point in hopping up on a soapbox and proclaiming that it is nonsense."

The point would be to stop letting false fearmongering drive policy. The "global warming is a crisis" claim is baloney.

Personally, many didn't care whether or not the emperor was stark naked or not, they were so enamored with the conventional wisdom they just went with the flow and decided if all the smart people said he was wearing fine clothes, they MUST be right. It took a little girl to point out the truth, because the grownups were too busy worrying about perception instead of reality.