Has Cap & Trade worked ANYWHERE it has been tried?? What about "green energy"?

I know. Call your senators, because it's up against them next.

This is proof that's it's a failure and a scam.

"The EU's carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, it is claimed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

Cap and trade succeeded in rapidly reducing acid rain-causing pollution in the United States. As part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, Congress and President George H.W. Bush introduced a cap and trade proposal to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2), the major precursor of acid rain.

The program has yielded a compliance rate of over 99 percent, as well as impressive environmental and economic results.
The long-term reduction targets were achieved three years ahead of schedule.
These targets were achieved at a fraction of the predicted cost. On the eve of legislation, the EPA estimated that the program would cost $6 billion annually once it was fully implemented (in 2000 dollars). The Office of Management and Budget has estimated actual costs to be $1.1 to $1.8 billion -- less than 30 percent of the forecast.
Cap and trade was designed, tested and proven here in the United States, as a program within the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. The success of this program led The Economist magazine to crown it "probably the greatest green success story of the past decade." (July 6, 2002).

This is proof that's it's a failure and a scam.

"The EU's carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, it is claimed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

This is proof that's it's a failure and a scam.

"The EU's carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, it is claimed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

Cap and trade worked right here in the USA to reduce acid rain.

Check it out. Fact.

This is proof that's it's a failure and a scam.

"The EU's carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, it is claimed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

Cap and trade worked right here in the USA to reduce acid rain.

Check it out. Fact.

Cap and trade has worked for pollution like sulfur emiissions very well - in fact, it has worked so well that the pollution credits have plummeted in price because technology outstripped what the credits were anticipated to be priced at.

This will potentially cause higher initial energy prices, but eventually, the energy prices may end up FALLING because renewable energy shoudl end up being cheaper than fossil fuels with the right tech advances.

Cap and trade worked right here in the USA to reduce acid rain.

Check it out. Fact.

Spain and Australia are currently in the political process of reversing their cap and trade policies because the effects have severely hindered their economies and have lost jobs even though those policies were to create jobs. Sound familiar? The current bill under consideration in the U.S. is even more dramatic than those.
And do not forget about California's AB32, it has driven utility costs higher, increase the costs of goods and services and pushed tens of thousands of jobs out of state.

This is proof that's it's a failure and a scam.

"The EU's carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, it is claimed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

We've had cap and trade here in the U.S. on sulfur and benzene for quite some time now.

This is proof that's it's a failure and a scam.

"The EU's carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, it is claimed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

This is proof that's it's a failure and a scam.

"The EU's carbon trading scheme has increased electricity bills, given a windfall to power companies and failed to cut greenhouse gases, it is claimed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm