Dis Coarse Discourse: Capped and Traded Away 0
My ex-local rag has an excellent analysis of the current place of cap and trade is what passes for political discoarse these days. Among other things, it points out that cap and trade was a Republican Party creation.
A nugget:
Long associated with programs born 20 years ago under Republican President George H.W. Bush, cap and trade was until recently a label for complicated market- and auction-based strategies used to control acid rain, smog and greenhouse gases.
Last week, however, cap and trade became a stripped-down surrogate for the running national debate over energy policy, the environmental cost of American dependence on fossil fuels and the price of paying now, or later, for carbon dioxide emissions.