[TheForge] Cap and trade

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Justin,

The problem isn't just whether they regulate blacksmiths.  If they shut down 
the coal industry we will see the affects indirectly through supply and 
price changes.

It's kind of like steel.  They don't make steel for the guy that gets a few 
hundred pounds every month or two.  They make it for the factories that buy 
it ten tons at a time.  Once the factories in an area shut down the steel 
supply dries up.

Once they convince the factories and power plants to convert to "clean" 
fuel, what happens to the coal supply?  Thats assuming they will even sell 
to small operators like us.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Fisher" <justinf at pixelations.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Cap and trade


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!)



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