Comments on: Waxman Markey as Cover for Business as Usual http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5233 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mark Bahner http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5233&cpage=1#comment-13946 Mark Bahner Thu, 21 May 2009 21:30:58 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5233#comment-13946 "Congressman Rick Boucher (D-VA) said much the same (emphasis added):..." Yes, but as they say with software: You're looking at Waxman-Markey as a cover for business as usual as a "bug," whereas Rick Boucher (D-Abingdon, VA...aka, "coal country") is probably viewing it as a "useful feature." ;-) P.S. It's generally not useful to dwell on motives, but I think it's probably reasonable to assume that Rick Boucher notices all the Norfolk Southern coal trains rumbling through his district, and probably would consider it to be a bad thing if they disappeared. :-) “Congressman Rick Boucher (D-VA) said much the same (emphasis added):…”

Yes, but as they say with software: You’re looking at Waxman-Markey as a cover for business as usual as a “bug,” whereas Rick Boucher (D-Abingdon, VA…aka, “coal country”) is probably viewing it as a “useful feature.”

;-)

P.S. It’s generally not useful to dwell on motives, but I think it’s probably reasonable to assume that Rick Boucher notices all the Norfolk Southern coal trains rumbling through his district, and probably would consider it to be a bad thing if they disappeared.

:-)

]]> By: EDaniel http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5233&cpage=1#comment-13939 EDaniel Thu, 21 May 2009 17:45:00 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5233#comment-13939 I like this cap-n-trade concept more and more all the time. Everything will be Green, even as CO2 emissions continue to increase. Buy Local will now apply to the entire planet. Imported beer, wine, whiskey (or even whisky), high-tech high-performance imported automobiles, and fresh-cut flowers in the dead of winter from anywhere on the planet, all flown here on 747s or even 380s. No more rationalization that it'll be cheaper if I have it produced in China and thus more people can afford to buy. China will be Green, too, with all the free-ride credits she'll get. Green is cap-n-trade, cap-n-trade is Green. I like this cap-n-trade concept more and more all the time. Everything will be Green, even as CO2 emissions continue to increase. Buy Local will now apply to the entire planet. Imported beer, wine, whiskey (or even whisky), high-tech high-performance imported automobiles, and fresh-cut flowers in the dead of winter from anywhere on the planet, all flown here on 747s or even 380s.

No more rationalization that it’ll be cheaper if I have it produced in China and thus more people can afford to buy. China will be Green, too, with all the free-ride credits she’ll get.

Green is cap-n-trade, cap-n-trade is Green.

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