[TheForge] Cap and trade

[Bob Ehrenberger]

I was wondering if any of you have any information on how cap and trade will 
affect blacksmiths?  It sounds to me that the goal of the bill is to force 
industry to quit using coal by taxing it to death.  The Missouri power 
companys (REC) seems to have worked out a deal, I think that is the trade 
part where if you own and maintain forests it offsets the carbon credits 
needed to burn coal at the power plants.

If they kill the coal industry I see coal as being harder to get for all of 
us.

Do you have any idea wheather a small business like a blacksmith can get 
carbon credits off of farm ground.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net