There seems to be no public support for cap and trade, or a carbon tax. Glad to see that many are coming to their senses. Of course, we didn’t really have a choice last year at the voting booth on this issue, because McCain is such an economic ignoramus.
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Not -just- an economic ignoramus, he’ still acting like he’s next in line.
Somehow, a call for members of the public to be less self-interested has again failed. How terribly surprising!
Somehow, it’s difficult to be less self-interested when the people calling for action send out 747’s on photo ops or hop on small private jets for meetings in Davos.
Leland, people would have been self-interested anyway, even in the absence of convenient rationalizations. What I don’t understand are the folks who think human nature can be molded to be otherwise. That trick never works, Bullwinkle!
What I don’t understand are the folks who think human nature can be molded to be otherwise.
I’m with you.
Some classmates of mine did their major project on creating a cap-and-trade system for our state to fund new green projects, even though the conclusion was that it would likely just end up as a branch of the Chicago Climate Exchange.
None of the members of that team, however, could explain to me where the money for the whole system came from, other than as extortion or in the form of higher energy prices.
Which, I suppose, also gets back to Rand’s recent posts about the value of an advanced degree from a public University…