[TheForge] Cap and trade

[Justin Fisher]

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.
>   
I doubt your forge will put out 10,000 tons of CO2 a year!  (That looks
to be the quantity that triggers regulation).
And it also looks like it applies to power-generation utilities, which a
blacksmith's forge is not.

So I think we're safe!

--Justin Fisher
Finally read the bill (whew!)