[TheForge] Cap and trade

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I'd imagine that the costs of dealing with small scale emitters like us 
will keep us safe for quite a while.

Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ries" <ries at riesniemi.com>
> To: "Bob Ehrenberger" <eforge at centurytel.net>; "Blacksmithing List Sponsored 
> by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> 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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