True stealing involves blowing up a mountain so you have the electricity to watch the big game on your plasma TV. Taxing people for polluting the commons is light punishment in my opinion.

True stealing involves blowing up a mountain so you have the electricity to watch the big game on your plasma TV. Taxing people for polluting the commons is light punishment in my opinion.

See Lessons Learned http://www.solaralliance.org/public_resources/rggi_lessons_learned.pdf

See Lessons Learned http://www.solaralliance.org/public_resources/rggi_lessons_learned.pdf

It is just a “fee-bate” – a fee for polluting, funding a rebate for clean energy. It penalizes the dangerous waste from old dirty energy we don’t want, and rewards anyone building the clean secure reliable future energy we do want.

That is not stealing.

A dirty energy company that wants to benefit under cap and trade would ALSO receive funding for installing clean energy, just like everyone else.

It is just a “fee-bate” – a fee for polluting, funding a rebate for clean energy. It penalizes the dangerous waste from old dirty energy we don’t want, and rewards anyone building the clean secure reliable future energy we do want.

That is not stealing.

A dirty energy company that wants to benefit under cap and trade would ALSO receive funding for installing clean energy, just like everyone else.

It’s alarming just how little you understand about economics.

It’s alarming just how little you understand about economics.