By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:16:42 +0000

On the contrary, cap and trade definitely has worked in Europe – it is now a decade ahead of us in the solar and wind sectors because it signed Kyoto and implemented cap and trade. Do we have an Iberdrola, an Abengoa? All the biggest renewable companies are now EU companies. Cape wind had to switch from (US) GE to (German) Siemens because we are so far behind, we cannot make big enough turbines for efficient offshore wind capture.

There have been lots of studies, that have definitively shown the difference it has made, getting GHG emissions down further than Kyoto requirements, (even before the 2008 economic collapse) that we have covered here: this story includes links to studies of many of these cap and trade successes, both in the EU, and ours (for acid rain, ozone, getting lead out of gasoline).

http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/26/cap-and-trade-works-eu-replaces-coal-power-with-wind-energy/

By: Gerald Clarke

Gerald Clarke — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:45:08 +0000

Hi
I am a conservative, a scientist, and have some doubts about all the CapNTrade stuff – What does your picture really show? the graphic is not well documented –
Even if C&T works, and if it does I would support it (It has not worked well in Europe) but I don’t think Our industries can compete with the world and it will drive many industries out – and kill the coal power industry with nothing currently available to replace it

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