Cap and trade [swindle allegedly] brings energy price stability - SmartPlanet

So what the market most needs is price stability. That’s what cap and trade, the most controversial aspect of the President’s energy and climate proposal, is designed to provide.

Update on Waxman-Markey Energy Rationing Bill | GlobalWarming.org

The Waxman-Markey energy-rationing bill may come to the House floor next week. Or it may not...It’s a poker game now....
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The National Rural Electric Co-operative Association is also raising a fuss since they discovered that they weren’t close enough to the trough when the free ration coupons were handed out. It has been reported that NRECA may drop their potential opposition to the bill if the co-operatives are given 1% of the coupons. It’s not much, but it may be enough for the president of NRECA, Glenn English, to quiet down his members. English is a former Democratic Congressman from Oklahoma. Former Members promote themselves on the basis of the access they have to their former colleagues. However, it is my experience that access is often a liability. It seems to me that English is so eager to agree to a deal with Waxman and Pelosi because if he doesn’t their doors will be closed the next time he stops by.

Focus Groups: Public Is Not Buying “Green Jobs” Nonsense

As Waxman-Markey inches closer to passage by the House, a memo has surfaced in the press that reports that the public isn’t buying global warming or cap-and-trade legislation. According to the results of “a set of 12 focus groups with swing voters in six states,” Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Third Way (a “progressive” public policy group) advise that the public are eager for dramatic change in energy policy, but that they “are not yet engaged on the issue and are susceptible to the argument that the progressive policy proposal [that is, cap-and-trade] amounts to a big energy tax.” Well, yes, people are susceptible to that argument because cap-and-trade does amount to a big energy tax on them.

So how to sell this big energy tax? The memo advises less emphasis on global warming and green jobs and more on clean energy. They suggest the slogan, Get America running on clean energy. That’s what worked with the focus groups. My slogan is, It’s a tax! We’ll see which one is more effective...