Cap and trade: "inefficent and ineffective"

Over the weekend, Laurie Williams and Allan Zabel, two Oakland, CA EPA attorneys, speaking as private citizens, sent an open letter to every member of Congress indicating that the cap and trade approach, such as espoused in the Lieberman-Warner America's Climate Security Act of 2007 (S. 2191), would be "inherently inferior to a carbon tax." Full Story »

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by Ann Wilmer - May. 7, 2008

That this topic is controversial is a given. That it is so complex is a direct by-product of using politics to solve social problems. The "solutions" that result from political machinations too often do little to actually alleviate the problems they are supposed to address. But the solutions are so convoluted that you need a diagram to follow the action. This story provides the diagram.

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