Watch out! There is Cap and Trade in Your Future

I am amused by the Exxon/Mobil commercial where we are told that the company uses new technology to drill efficiently and lowers costs to consumers. The commercial also goes on to state that we need energy from all sources. I am also amused by the coal commercial touting clean coal. I then tell the TV "It doesn't matter!" Whatever the oil companies and coal companies are doing does not matter to this administration. It doesn't matter that we have incredible stores of coal, natural gas, and oil that can give us plenty of cheap, clean energy. What is important to this administration is costly energy that is touted as being green (they conveniently forget about the biofuel mess).  This administration hates fossil fuels. The excuse they use is that fossil fuels generate CO2 which contributes to greenhouse gases which in turn create global warming. They conveniently ignore all of the mounting evidence that shows no relationship between greenhouse gases and global temperatures. Indeed, I read elsewhere where the author stated that there is a "growing consensus" among scientists that humans do not cause global warming (see http://mises.org/story/3421). This does not matter. For many, global warming is a religion and so no amount of evidence can change their minds (the true definition of faith). That global warming is now a religion is apparent when all the evidence starting mounting that we were actually going through a period of global cooling. Then the "greenie weenies" converted global warming to global climate change. Give me a break. Since Obama now runs GM, he will demonstrate that he is not interested in the company returning to profitability since GMs profitable cars are its SUVs and pickups - vehicles that the greenie weenies hate. Rather Obama will have GM produce teenie little hybrids and electric cars that look like prey to my F-350 pickup. Obama will then tax heavily fossil fuels, put a luxury tax on SUVs and nonfarm pickups and subsidize cars using alternative energy sources. It won't be pretty my friends when we see the travel trailer and boat industries tanking because they can no longer be towed. Itsn't it ironic that Obama touted his stimulus package in Elkhart, Indiana, the home of the RV industry when his cap and trade proposal will kill that industry? Speaking of cap and trade, would someone kindly explain to me why policies that have always failed are still being proposed. Cape and trade has been a disaster in Europe, raising unemployment, decreasing production while generating emissions above the levels in the United States! I cannot see any politician voting for it given its impact on energy prices, inflation, interest rates, unemployment, and industry dislocation. So I was stunned to see Henry Waxman and Ed Markey actually have written a cap and trade (648 page) bill. I bet it gets no co-authors from Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio or Pennsylvania! Since it has no chance of passage, the EPA has taken up the mantle by declaring CO2 emissions hazardous. Pretty sneaky. That means we will get cap and trade and the politicians are given cover since they did not vote for it. For the rest of us, though and all Americans, it will mean a permanent lower standard of living. Lastly, the reasons the politicians love cap and trade is obvious. It is a huge tax increase (projected to be $650 b over 8 years). It also increases the politicians power because they can pick winners and losers. They tax the unfavored industries and subsidize the favored ones. Who cares what the market wants? Who cares what the people want? Its all about power.