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By Mondoreb

Old and busted: Cap and Trade

NEW GOVERNMENT HOTNESS: REDUCTION & REFUND

Didn’t like what “cap and trade” legislation will do to your electric bill or the economy? No problem! We’ll just call it “reduction and refund.” It’s the same old bill with a new exciting name. The Senate’s political hacks go back to 1984.

CAP’N TRADE IS GOING BACK TO 1984

When you change the name of a POS legislation to try and fool voters, political operatives call it “re-branding.”

George Orwell might call it “Newspeak.”

From Climate bill now a focus of Senate
[link to www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com]
(via the NRO’s The Corner): [link to corner.nationalreview.com]

Proponents of the legislation in the Senate are reworking the proposed emissions rules and have jettisoned the term “cap and trade.” The system for reducing emissions now is being called “reduction and refund.” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told CNBC last week “the term cap and trade is not in the lexicon anymore.”

[Zack Hill, a lobbyist for Alliant Energy who is representing a coalition of Midwest utilities on the issue] said changing the terminology was “a classic re-branding attempt by the senators to confuse consumers.”

“Cap and trade” was going to cripple industry, stifle the economy and raise electric bills for voters throughout the country–all the while making billionaires of system-gamers like Al Gore.

Voters won’t like that, so let’s change the name, not the noxious legislation.


Did you pay all of your new electric bill?

“Reduction and refund”: Problem solved!

Welcome to the future, baby!

UPDATE: A truly Orwellian update: in the future, IF cap and trade becomes law, you won’t be able to sell your house UNLESS the EPA has approved it as “energy efficient.”

Did not know that. It’s interesting but still More Big Government Bullshit.

From 04.09.10 UPDATE: Thinking about selling your house? – A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill):
[link to www.federalobserver.com]


In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.

To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured. Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements. Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a “label” in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner If you don’t get a high enough rating, you can’t sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act.

The EPA administrator, appointed by the President, will run the Cap & Trade program (AKA the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009″) and is authorized to make any future changes to the regulations and standards he alone determines to be in the government’s best interest.

Get that? Not your best interest but “in the government’s best interest.”

Vote them out–and keep them out.

by Mondo Frazier
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