Comments on: Then what would be the point?

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:18:10 +0000

I work for a very large industrial gas and chemical company, and I can’t wait to see the panic that will ensue when we max out on our CO2 emmissions cap, and we have to stop making hydrogen. Guess what? The next thing you’ll see vanish is gasoline and diesel at the pumps. Very practical indeed. Just more taxes in disguise is all this is.

By: Butch Bornt

Butch Bornt — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:24:10 +0000

#15 – Mike M: We have a winnah!

By: David M

David M — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:32:46 +0000

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By: cottus

cottus — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:44:52 +0000

So sad. A new tax/profit center fer sure. Nothing more. Remember that hole in the ozone layer thing caused by the eeevil Freon? The same Freon on which Dupont’s patent ran out? Well, the planet was doomed until it was mandated that all refrigeration systems must use new, patented stuff.

Whatever happened to the hole in the ozone? Probably the same thing that will happen when industry and government get their new tax rolling. Man made global warming, errr – climate change will drop off the front pages and out of the (union) school syllabus and a new (profitable) scourge will threaten to ravage the planet unless we act NOW!

There’s a sucker born every minute, and at my age, that has grown tiresome indeed.

By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:10:58 +0000

The point is to increase Government power.

This is ALL about increasing power. And nothing else.

By: GeoSTI

GeoSTI — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 05:50:20 +0000

Max, what I was saying is that under most carbon trading schemes, they wouldn’t have to close the plant, just pay the pittance of the fine. Unless of course, the politicos send out the jackbooted eco-mentalists out to close the factory, then the scenario becomes much worse.

And I wouldn’t state there isn’t a green revolution coming from the agro-tech labs. There is a lot in the pipe, just hard to release when you have neo-luddites that would rather starve people than accept progress.