[TheForge] Cap and trade

[wmullett at bright.net]

Coal will not be gone in our lifetime.... and we will not be dealing with cap and trade directly.

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>Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:04:37 -0800
>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of ries <ries at riesniemi.com>)
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cap and trade  
>To: Bob Ehrenberger <eforge at centurytel.net>,Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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>On Nov 3, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>
>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
>
>
>It seems obvious- Cap and Trade is yet another nefarious project of  
>Grant Sarver's to get more of our money.
>Once coal is too expensive to use, we will all have to buy Grant's  
>Induction Forges.
>
>I wouldnt get too alarmed quite yet- the final bill is a LOOONG way  
>from being decided on, and the way the american legislative system  
>works, two things are absolutely certain- that money talks, and that  
>compromise is inevitable.
>there will be a house bill, a senate bill, and a reconciliation  
>between the two.
>None of the three has been finalized, and a lot of horse trading will  
>be done on all three before anything is carved in stone.
>
>Me, I use propane, anyway.
>
>Ries Niemi
>Industrial Artist
>http://www.riesniemi.com/
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