Everytime I hear the words "cap & trade" I just get a mental image of a couple of rednecks swapping John Deere caps.
The more one reads about this whole thing the more one realizes that "cap & trade" is nothing more than the likes of big investment houses like Goldman Sachs creating a new commodity market and then companies springing up out of that to in effect take a waste product and turn that into a commodity.
Go to google or yahoo and plug in
carbon dioxide>commodity trading>goldman sachs just for starters and start searching this thing. IMHO, it ain't what it seems at all.
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What about Al Gore and does he connect anyway into this whole Goldman Sachs commodity thing? Why don't you do some searches of the British Corp.
Generation Investment Management founded in 2004'. Check out the Chairman and the Senior Partner under "Team" icon on the mainpage. You'll know the chairman and the senior partner otherwise known as CEO is a former Goldman Sachs official. Did you know Hank Paulson had a direct connection to Generation Investment and that GIM holds a sizable position in both the Chicago and London Carbon Commodity Exchange boards along with Goldman Sachs? Did you know that former Enron scoundrel Ken Lay supported and helped to create a commodity trading vehicle of CO2?
Follow the Money and the Connections.
This is nothing but an economic scam that powerful people have used gov't and political position to create and gain a market advantage, many even to almost monopoly status if we dig to see it, and yet we are left to believe the MSM and various talking heads/politicos that these people and gov't are here to save us. This is just nothing but industry magnates finding a way to profit even further and raise their portfolio values all off a waste product that in the past profitted them nothing.
As one poster said, soylent green is not to far off if the Corp State has it's way but the heads of the monster won't be dining with us for sure! That pic above has a whole lot more truth to it than we even realize.
For the record, I'm all for micro generation of electricity from solar/wind/hydro/geothermal/whatever sources that allow the average person walk in and buy a stand alone system that generates from renewables and at the same time frees them in an economic sense from a centralized, monopoly/cartelized energy grid. Nothing is carbon free as our known world is carbon based in structure but if it's possible to gain economic/personal freedom while at the same lessening the impact of carbon dioxide potential, I'm good. Besides, IMHO as I've said before, way to many other varibles involved in the warming/cooling cycles to just stick the all in all cause on manmade carbon dioxide. But I'm all for people having free choices that would limit CO2 impact for sure!
Henry Thoreau said: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root!"
Start "Striking the Root!"