Friday, October 16, 2009

Eliot Spitzer Attack against U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Left-Wing Politics at its Worst
Spitzer's commentary exposes the left-wing strategy of using public money to advance its cause. Spitzer's political motivation is clear: because the Chamber is fighting cap-and-trade and "Card Check" they need to be taken out.
GOP Mocks Deeds Over Gore Visit | TPMDC
Subject line of an email sent out by the op-research team at the RNC last night: "Cap And Trade Creigh Meets The Goracle"

From the email:
Al Gore Jets In To Virginia To Help His Fellow Cap And Trader, Creigh Deeds
Key Players Quietly Building Carbon [Swindle] Market Infrastructure
While it might seem like a $2 trillion new carbon market will be created overnight with a presidential signature, the current players in this new commodity have been quietly building its infrastructure for several years already.
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Then there’s a whole new group of service providers dedicated to managing the value of your emissions portfolio. While firms like TerraPass offer clients like Ford and American Express  one-stop, carbon-asset management, new emissions brokerages have sprung up to buy and sell carbon credits from offset projects. In this arena, pure emissions brokers, like White Plains-based Evolution Markets, vie with emissions operations of established firms, like Cantor Fitzgerald’s CantorCO2e group.
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With or without cap-and-trade legislation, there’s still a vibrant voluntary market if the carbon credits are solid, says APX’s Musier.
CCX [on that allegedly "vibrant" voluntary market, prices have collapsed to 10 cents per ton]

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