What is “Cap and Trade”? | Cold Fury

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It is a lie. But not just a lie. It is also theft, socialism, dirt-worship. Big Government, extremism, impoverishment, fantasy and disempowerment.

Cap and Trade is a gargantuan regressive tax and oppressive regulatory scheme of energy rationing. It forces businesses to buy permission slips from a “central authority” to both create and then use energy, a double tax.

Why not just call it an Energy Tax? Because taxes are unpopular. It’s called “Cap and Trade” because “Tax and Regulate” is too honest. It is touted as a free market solution to pollution…if by “free” we mean mandatory and by “market” we mean “government”.

Don Surber » Blog Archive » Global warming has lost its cachet

Robert J. Brulle of Drexel University, an expert on environmental communications, said: “You want to sell toothpaste, we’ll sell it. You want to sell global warming, we’ll sell that. It’s the use of advertising techniques to manipulate public opinion.”

And by toothpaste, he means snake oil.

Terence Corcoran: If anything saves Detroit, it will be muscle-power, not mileage - Full Comment

The Volt may be the political cover governments need to strong-arm their way into the auto industry in the name of saving the planet from climate change. But it is the Camaro and scores of other cars powered by fossil fuel, with pizzazz and power -- and even size -- that will determine the future of the auto industry, including GM and Chrysler, in the next five years, even the next decade. As the auto industry climbs out of its current deep rut, as it will, the Camaro will be more a part of the recovery than pipe dreams about Volts and lithium batteries and electricity fill-up locations.