RealDave
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Lying fuck. You don't know shit about cap & trade.I know all about cap and trade, moron. There's no way a tax can reduce the amount of C02 that a coal fired power plant produces, or a natural gas plant.Tech bubble was a little bump. Gore might have prevented 9-11.We would not have had the tax cuts. WE would have had a surplus, paying down the debt. Gore ran on that. Bush didn't - he wanted to give it back meaning no surplus & no balanced budget. Greedy stupid fuck you voted for that. Now you cry about the debt.
As for global warming, there would have been b o tripling of electric bills. You are once again lying. There were cap & trade policies that would have reduced our emission without causing significant rising in electric costs. Pull you head out of Trump's ass & get better informed.
You know nothing that is real.
The deficit increased under Bush mostly because the tech bubble collapsed and we had a recession because of 9/11. So, no, we wouldn't have had a surplus.
Germany has been following exactly the same fucked up energy policies that you endorse and utility bills there are three times what America pays. The empirical evidence says your claim is bullshit. Furthermore, cap and trade does nothing to reduce the price of your "green energy" boondoggles.
No, look up the cap & trade programs. Get educated, Get informed. Be a new person!
In a cap & trade, a limit for emissions is set. Those that emit less earn credits. Those that pollute more must buy credits from those who pollute less or buy them from the government.. Those needing to buy credits will have higher costs & be less competitive. Those who emit less will be more competitive & have a higher market share. It uses free market to reduce the amount of emissions. That, asshole, is how cap & trade works. They reduce emissions or find themselves out of the market.
If you put a cap and trade on breathing would that reduce the amount of CO2 that humans emit? Obviously not. As I pointed out previously, but you are too fucking dumb to understand, cap and trade will work with some things, but it can't alter the laws of physics and thermodynamics. It can't alter the fact that the combustion of a certain weight of coal or natural gas will produce a certain amount of CO2.
If you run the plants that pollute the most out of business while helping the ones that pollute the least, you reduce the emissions.
It is that fucking simple.
Not all coal burning plants are created equal. Not all coal is created equal.