Carbon Credits, Cap and Trade - Same As Rationing

Cap and trade is nothing more than a top down administration rationing scheme imposed on the population which the rations can subsequently be traded.

Sounds good, you get carbon credits for everything you do, car, washing machine, heating, lighting, the TV, you get carbon credits and it encompasses all those things. No problem if you don't blow your budget. But then, you need to buy more, form someone who will sell theirs, Sounds like rationing, and trading rations doesn't it. How much otherwise productive time would be spent on figuring out your rations, buying or selling your leftovers or covering your needs. It's a bureaucratic time waster, a bureaucrat's wet dream. A make work scheme that even the old Soviet Russia could be proud of.

After the disastrous recent election in the UK, looks like the UK government's plans to tax the peons to death has been stuffed back on the shelf, for now.

What it really does do is reduce daily life to trading carbon credits. If this sounds a lot like the movie plot for "Soylent Green" it does because it is. One way to get more supply, is shorten lifespan and recycle. The first baby steps, no different that standing in line in Democrat Jimmy Carter's America and trying to get your five gallons of gas allotment on your designated day.

It sucks...

One thing it's not is free market or freedom.

When you apply the carbon cap and trade scheme to power companies you have the same effect. Some power companies will get rich off their excess carbon credits, others will go broke trying to buy enough to serve their customers electricity needs. Why not just shut down and sell carbon credits, to hell with the customers and their needs for electricity. Well, do that and the government will take over your company, yes that is what Democrat Jimmy Carter did, and the results were spectacular ... FAILURE and near failure of the US economy.

In the end, it's rationing, rationing BTUs ( energy units -- a gallon of gasoline has about 130,000 BTU ) pure and simple. Clinton tried this the first year he was in office with the BTU tax. At the time, it was just a tax for tax sake, now they have woven the "save the Earth" mantra into the tax and spend mentality of Washington. Save the Earth, as if we could.

One curiosity, ethanol and other renewable energy is not taxed, as if they give off no CO2 -- I wonder how this is explained, because you have to be pretty ignorant to not understand that ethanol when burned, gives off CO2 just like gasoline.

And how exactly does this save the Earth? If you wanted to save the Earth, just slap a tax on it and let the market decide. And that is the ultimate problem, the tax would be instantly visible, but the carbon credit crap looks like a fuzzy pipe dream, because everyone would think they could scheme their way to a successful outcome. They thought this in the Communist Soviet Union, which is why the normal state was the shelves at the grocery store were empty, and people wore rags for clothes.

The thing with taxes, they only go up, never down and never go away. Once they are there, you are sunk, pay or else.

Talking About A Bush Third Term

Cool bumper sticker, going to get me one for the pick 'em up.

Kansas Crude

Rising price of Kansas oil making cost to explore, drill feasible once again, the free market at work. Price of oil too high, need more supplies. Something Democrats will never understand, or in the warped world view, choose to ignore. Trying to argue logically with a liberal, it's easier to carry on a conversation with a pet rock.

Soylent Green

A good movie on the Democrats perspective of soup line, command and control America.

I had just recently watched this old classic, and it wasn't so scary as the first times, it felt more true than fiction. By controlling womb to the tomb, you control lifetime. By controlling the past, you control the future. By controlling the present, you control the past.

I am often amazed watching how liberals ferociously rewrite history -- wikipedia is a good example and two subjects they love to whitewash are global warming and the disastrous presidency that was Democrat Jimmy Carter. They are trying to control the past, so they can control the future. If you need access to real history, best get yourself an older printed encyclopaedia.

The Soylent Green film, which is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison. Another book that portrayed a dark future for mankind, "1984" was made into a movie, and depicts life in a command and control world run by an omnipresent "Big Brother".




Decide for yourself how close to true they are. Life imitates art.

Encore

Does it have to end?

Unelectable

Hillary sings ...

Unelectable, that's what you are
Unelectable, your past is just too bizarre
That whiff of smug that clings to you
Your mentor has become the big issue
Never before have you been more,
Unelectable, in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, Barry, it's incredible
That you've become so unelectable.
Super delegates want a winner,
Not you.

Unelectable, that's what you are..

Hehehehehe.

Unelectable

Hillary sings ...

Unelectable, that's what you are
Unelectable, your past is just too bizarre
That whiff of smug that clings to you
Your mentor has become the big issue
Never before have you been more,
Unelectable, in every way
And forever more, that's how you'll stay
That's why, Barry, it's incredible
That you've become so unelectable.
Super delegates want a winner,
Not you.

Unelectable, that's what you are..

Now we have hoodwinking, bamboozling and the latest -- Okie Dokers, what's that, a new term for super delegates selecting not electing the next Democrat candadate, that's rich, isn't it.

But the irony of the Democrats conducting the discussion of swift boating Barack Hussein Obama in the future tense ignores the fact that, by any reasonable definition, Barrack Hussein Obama has already been Swift-Boated -- Truth be told. The Democrats haven't noticed. Obama is damaged goods, for good reason.

Hehehehehe.

Must Read Editorial

If you value your money, and are an investor, the Investors Business Daily is a must read. Today they have an outstanding editorial on who is benefiting from the global warming scare. Want to guess who?

... global warming is a growth industry designed to keep Earth and some bank accounts green.

Experience counts

So if John McCain said he had visited 57 states the drive by media would say ____ ?

Poor Obama, he just is too smart by half. He knows a lot about the country he hates, doesn't he.

UK Escapes the 'Green' Version of Marxism, For Now

For now is the operative word ... here

Elections mean things, it's high time that Americans pay attention to that, before we make a horrible mistake and turn to the Democrats command and control Marxism economics, all in the name of fairness.

I bet the US version goes forward and the results in a few years are decimated Democrats as the failure will be spectacular. See Carter for details.