[TheForge] Cap and trade

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Ries,

I think I'll give up blacksmithing before I have to use an induction forge. 
I would build a charcoal furnace first.

We have an LP forge which my son likes for knife blades. I use it about once 
a year.

I know it will take a long time to get Cap and Trade into law, but if we 
don't pay attention, they will stick it to us.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net


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From: "ries" <ries at riesniemi.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cap and trade



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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