Comments about ‘Cap-and-trade bill could hurt consumers, economy, environment’

All my long life I have listened to conservatives bemoan ANY environmental regulations at all. If they had had their way, our rivers would be poisoned and our skies would be dark with pollution. I'm all for cap-n-trade because it will hit the big polluters in the wallet, which is the only motivation they understand.

Daily I read editorials, comments and letters-to-the-editor from all over the nation. Whereas when the House passed the bill it was maybe 2-to-1 against cap and trade, opinion now seems to be at least 6-to-1 against. The Senate will be wise to bury this unpopular, complex and risky legislation.

-- Robert Moen, energyplanUSA

The "big polluters" will just pass their costs on to us, the little guys, where it will hit us in the wallet.

The "big polluters" who are unable to pass on their increased costs to us because they compete with businesses in Mexico, Brazil, China, etc (who will not have cap-and-trade requirements) will just disappear, taking with them jobs, taxes, and stable communities.

The biggest polluter on the planet is nature! One volcano or one forest fire (as in California) release more CO2 into the atmosphere than all the SUVs in the world. Proof that cap and trade is a scam, a bait and switch scheme to control YOU and your money!

Although nobody wants to pay for higher engery cost it is important to look at the long view. Do we just sit back and let economics purely decide energy production and how it is produced? What are consequences of a pure economic approach? What are the consequences of changing how are energy is produced now?

People do not like change, but the only way to make a change is to start it. The only way to make a change on a large scale is through the government otherwise it will never succeed. Market forces can not do it because the market will go for the easiest and cheapest solution even though the solution might not be the best long term.