Comments on: When the Cap Isn't a Cap, the Trades are a Charade http://www.masterresource.org/2009/06/when-the-caps-not-a-cap-and-the-trades-a-charade/ A free-market energy blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://www.masterresource.org/2009/06/when-the-caps-not-a-cap-and-the-trades-a-charade/comment-page-1/#comment-1730 Andrew Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:43:57 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=3078#comment-1730 Cap and Trade was created as the allegedly "market" solution with which to fool the right (because we are supposed to be clueless or superficial apparently) into believing it could address AGW in a "market" way. The "trade" is not a market in the same way prices of subsidized products to not reflect market signals, only more so, because the carbon market is entirely artificial, not merely distorted. Cap and Trade was created as the allegedly “market” solution with which to fool the right (because we are supposed to be clueless or superficial apparently) into believing it could address AGW in a “market” way. The “trade” is not a market in the same way prices of subsidized products to not reflect market signals, only more so, because the carbon market is entirely artificial, not merely distorted.

]]> By: Ed Reid http://www.masterresource.org/2009/06/when-the-caps-not-a-cap-and-the-trades-a-charade/comment-page-1/#comment-1731 Ed Reid Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:21:05 +0000 http://masterresource.org/?p=3078#comment-1731 W-M is not about reducing carbon emissions. W-M is about raising revenues for the federal government. W-M will hurt US industry, but that is an "unintended" (though fully anticipatable) consequence. W-M is not about reducing carbon emissions.

W-M is about raising revenues for the federal government.

W-M will hurt US industry, but that is an “unintended” (though fully anticipatable) consequence.

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