Indiana Says 'No Thanks' to Cap and Trade

No honest person thinks this will make a dent in climate change.

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By MITCH DANIELS This week Congress is set to release the details of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, a bill that purports to combat global warming by setting strict limits on carbon emissions. I'm not a candidate for any office -- now or ever again -- and I've approached the "climate change" debate with an open-mind. But it's clear to me that the nation, and in particular Indiana, my home state, will be terribly disserved by this cap-and-trade policy on the verge of passage in the House. The largest scientific and economic questions are being addressed by others, so I will confine myself to reporting about how all this looks from the receiving end of the taxes, restrictions and mandates Congress is now proposing. Quite simply, it looks like imperialism. This bill would impose enormous taxes and restrictions on free commerce by wealthy but faltering powers -- California, Massachusetts and New York -- seeking to exploit politically weaker colonies in order to prop up their own decaying economies. Because proceeds from their new taxes, levied mostly on us, will be spent on their social programs while negatively impacting our economy, we Hoosiers decline to submit meekly......

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The more this man speaks out the better I like him!
Anyone wish to try and defend this cap and trade boondoggle?

we are suffering something similar here
this carbon cap is restricting the building of fuel alternative power stations
power stations that could burn house hold or sewage waste instead of placing house hold waste into land fill and/or allowing raw sewage to flow directly into the north sea

the only thing that they can come up with for our long term energy supply is nuclear power stations
which, itself, creates a massive long term waste/storage problem
and are far more expensive in building then conventional power stations that can use the waste that we already produce and have great difficulty in disposing of …