What is “Cap and Trade”?

“Cap and Trade” is a relatively simple concept using  extremely complicated laws. But all you need to understand is the concept.

 THE GOAL

 “Cap and Trade” begins with the assumption that using energy is a bad thing and the less we use the better. The goal is using less energy.

 THE CAP

“Cap and Trade” puts a U.S. Government “cap” on energy use, creating a government-imposed artificial energy shortage. The shortage is intentional. It is the whole purpose of the program. If you are old enough to remember or know about the “oil shortages” of the seventies, with skyrocketing prices and long lines of cars at gas stations, that’s what we’re talking about, but not just for gasoline: for all energy. Your heat, your electricity and everything every company uses. It will affect not just the cost of energy, but the cost of everything energy produces. Everything you buy, in other words.  And the cause is not the “Arabs” or the “Oil Companies” or world market conditions. This is a U.S. Government-created shortage. Government is the cause.

THE TRADE

 ”Trade” is the system used to ration the energy that the U.S. Government still allows us to use.

In order to avoid the seemingly inevitable Corporate Backlash they would earn by targeting our energy supply, the life’s blood of the American economy,  the Politicians who support the “Cap” came up with the ingenious idea of “trading” energy credits (the rationing “coupons”), thus setting the financial interests of Industries fighting against each other instead of against the actual cause of the shortage (the politicians). Corporations must compete for politicians’ favor.

WHO GETS THE CREDITS? HOW MANY? WHO DECIDES?

Will energy rationing credits (coupons) be distributed evenly among all American citizens or will big corporations be favored in distribution because they are the current big energy users? Will you be able to sell your coupons to big industry or will those industries get some free at your expense?

Big-Buck Lobbyists from the biggest U.S. Corporations will be working under Cap & Trade, like Bankers under the Bailout to answer these questions with Campaign Contributions for Corrupt Congressmen. 

 

Enormous power will shift from you to the U.S. Government.

Enormous power will shift from small businesses to huge corporations.

 “Cap” means ARTIFICIAL SHORTAGE.

“Trade” means CORPORATIONS competing for Corporate Welfare from Washington D.C.

“Energy Use” means “the economy.”

“Reducing Energy Use,” under “Cap and Trade” means inevitably creating poverty, making everyone poorer, spreading hardship. It is an attempt to cool the earth by slowing the economy.

 The march of innovative technology, combined with American Freedom made us the richest nation in the world. It was because we learned to use energy through advancing technology. That Free Enterprise became the economic wonder of the world. We built a dymano of production that defeated German National Socialism and Imperial Japan on two fronts. It made us the greatest power in 3,000 years. It was the difference between America and the “third world” or Communist nations, the re-builder of Europe. Our freedom, the courage and innovation. We were free and voluntarily defended our freedom with the American strength we had built ourselves. 

Cap and Trade reverses that process by intentionally reducing the technological use of energy. It makes economic activity the enemy.

It’s inevitable result is to shrink the economy, a little at first, (like Social Security was in the beginning) but since controlling Climate is the measuring stick, the shortages can only grow. A successful Cap and Trade system will raise the Cap standards (like the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards and Social Security costs) year by year stopping progress until the sun cools off (or the nation fails). We will be weaker and weaker year by year, decade by decade, no longer a powerful nation. Weaker than Europe. Weaker than China. It is a kind of national suicide.

Are “Republicans” working for it? You bet they are. Republicans in name, anyway.

Photos show the leading Republican Cap 'n Trader and supporters in Washington State