Comments on: Cap and Trade Dangerous for Missouri http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/06/cap-and-trade-dangerous-for-missouri.html Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:56:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: State Policy Blog » Blog Archive » Carbon Reduction Treaties Misguided http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/06/cap-and-trade-dangerous-for-missouri.html/comment-page-1#comment-3754 State Policy Blog » Blog Archive » Carbon Reduction Treaties Misguided Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:56:39 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=5504#comment-3754 [...] hurt by the regulations, given that much of our economy relies on carbon-emitting energy. (Read my previous blog post about cap and trade for more reasons why it is a bad [...] [...] hurt by the regulations, given that much of our economy relies on carbon-emitting energy. (Read my previous blog post about cap and trade for more reasons why it is a bad [...]

]]> By: Bill H http://www.showmedaily.org/2009/06/cap-and-trade-dangerous-for-missouri.html/comment-page-1#comment-2991 Bill H Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:49:24 +0000 http://www.showmedaily.org/?p=5504#comment-2991 Well, Obama has already said that he thinks Iran should be able to use nuclear energy. Perhaps he will allow it for the USA as well! Our energy infrastructure is dangerously old. The electricity transmission grids are antiquated, no nuclear plants have been built in 30 years, no new oil refineries have been built in the same amount of time. The technology for oil drilling has improved to such a great extent that is is extremely safe and environmentally friendly, but new drilling has been outlawed in the areas in which we have the greatest supply (the frozen tundra of north Alaska, the Gulf Coast and the Pacific coast). Oh, and the Chinese are now drilling for oil in the Caribbean (at the invitation of the Cubans) - on the same oil fields we would be accessing. Don't you think they will be much more environmentally conscious than US and European firms? The Cap and Trade bill was touted as a new energy policy. This is Orwellian doublespeak. We don't have a rational energy policy - all we have are policies to make energy production and usage more expensive. Well, Obama has already said that he thinks Iran should be able to use nuclear energy. Perhaps he will allow it for the USA as well!

Our energy infrastructure is dangerously old. The electricity transmission grids are antiquated, no nuclear plants have been built in 30 years, no new oil refineries have been built in the same amount of time. The technology for oil drilling has improved to such a great extent that is is extremely safe and environmentally friendly, but new drilling has been outlawed in the areas in which we have the greatest supply (the frozen tundra of north Alaska, the Gulf Coast and the Pacific coast). Oh, and the Chinese are now drilling for oil in the Caribbean (at the invitation of the Cubans) – on the same oil fields we would be accessing. Don’t you think they will be much more environmentally conscious than US and European firms?

The Cap and Trade bill was touted as a new energy policy. This is Orwellian doublespeak. We don’t have a rational energy policy – all we have are policies to make energy production and usage more expensive.

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