Posts Under ‘cap and and trade’ Category

Reading the Senate's Storm Clouds

April 2, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in cap and and trade, climate change | 1 comment

You don’t need a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing in the Senate on cap-and-trade legislation. Yesterday, after several revealing votes showed just how tough it will be to pass a meaningful climate change bill in Congress,  Olympia Snowe, the Republican moderate from Maine, said this to Politico: It’s a complicated issue…Continue Reading…

Really?

February 23, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Ben Stein, cap and and trade, carbon tax | No comments

In case you missed this, Ben Stein favors a carbon tax. Seems like the California resident and conservative economist is having “trouble breathing on too many days.” But his argument is more against the unpredictability of cap and trade. That, and putting the same masters of the universe back in the driver’s seat: Haven’t we…Continue Reading…