Cap and Trade och amerikansk energipolitik

Har ju påpekat att utsläppsrätter förutom att göra energibolag stormrika kommer att tvinga industrier att lägga ned och uppmuntra flytt av dem till länder som inte har politiskt beslutade utsläppstak, t ex Kina. Tycker även att Ann-Charlotte Marteus jämförelse mellan Vattenfall och Carl XII hade en poäng Marteus inte avsåg (vikingars plundringståg kanske bättre) då uppköpt kolkraft med utsläppsrätter lär ge Vattenfall grym vinst; men annars är nedsidorna många.

Nyare stoff om USA:s cap-and-trade och ekonomi:

I denna Wall Street Journal-artikel beskrivs enormt statliga intäkter från högre energiskatter i cap-and-trade-systemet. En ekonom på en oberoende think-tank säger: "This is going to change the distribution of wealth potentially for a century". En VD på ett oljeföretag anmärker att cap-and-trade kommer att uppmuntra industrin att flytta produktion och arbeten utomlands.
(HT: Derek Tipp)

Newt Gingrich (tror på AGW men inte hysteriskt) menar i artikeln "Destroying Both Jobs And Energy Security" att det ser illa ut för USA.

Utdrag ur artikeln:

"The recession continues to worsen. Stores and companies are closing their doors. Millions are unemployed. Families are struggling to pay for homes, food, cars and fuel."

"We'll spend another $350 billion this year on imported oil.

And with the stroke of a pen, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar canceled 77 Utah oil and gas leases that had gone through seven years of studies, negotiations and land-use planning. In an instant, he eliminated hundreds of jobs, terminated access to vital oil and gas deposits, and deprived taxpayers of millions in lease bonus, rent, royalty and tax revenues."

"Secretary Salazar is supposedly a moderate on land use and energy development. But this decision, after one week in office, suggests that he actually has strong anti-energy attitudes — or is too easily "persuaded" by environmental pressure groups.

They've already eliminated logging and mining in most of the West. They're now going after oil, gas, coal, oil shale and uranium — and after that ranching and snowmobiling.

Anti-energy zealots always say these areas only have three weeks or, at most, a few months of oil. But by this logic, why conserve, recycle or reduce pollution? Your personal contribution is trifling. Why plant corn or wheat? Your fields won't make a dent in world hunger.

Obviously, it's the cumulative impact that matters."

"An area the size of Texas and Oklahoma, 92% of our onshore publicly owned oil, and 90% of our onshore natural gas — are off-limits to Americans suffering through this recession.

This precedent to cancel leases (or never issue them), because drilling rigs might be visible from park and wilderness areas, threatens to make millions of additional acres off-limits. Such shortsighted actions will destroy jobs and drive up energy prices and the cost of everything we eat and do."

"Protecting the environment is crucial. And most people understand that, thanks to modern technologies, we can be pro-energy and protect the environment simultaneously.

For instance, while the left incites fear about offshore oil spills, the facts clearly show that current drilling techniques are enormously successful and incredibly safe."

Verkar som om vi framöver kan få se blackouts i USA av såväl el som industri.

(HT: Russ Steele)

Ett Lou Dobbs-reportage där bl a Geithners roll tas upp.

youtube.com/watch?v=dM9sq8lPfn8


Obamas uttalande för The Chronicles är med:

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."

Jag ser som oroande att man avser att lägga alla kostnader -- stora sådana -- på de 10 procent av befolkningen som tjänar mest. Det lär innebära en mycket stor omfördelning, där de mest framgångsrika bestraffas (förlorar), av en omfattning man kan undra om USA tidigare sett.

Omfördelningens omfattning borde bli betydande då ~1000 miljarder dollar spenderats på svaga delar i ekonomin och liknande belopp ska användas mot klimathotet, samtidigt som Obama lovat 90 procent av medborgarna skattesänkning samt att minska budgetunderskottet.

Lou Dobbs kommentar om att de fattigaste ändå kommer att drabbas värst lär nog stämma.

Ben Stein hos Glenn Beck.

youtube.com/watch?v=sWX2XdWkoVU


Ben Stein 3:45 in i videon:

"…we are trading our freedom for an extremely illusive ideal of climate perfection which has never existed"

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