Good article explaining how Cap and Trade has nothing to do with controlling the climate. It's only a revenue generator.
You can feverishly construct all the wind towers and solar plants you like to replace that one coal fired plant. You’ll need 700 of them just to replace that one coal fired plant, and even then. you’ll only get one fifth of the power because that’s the best efficiency rate they operate at. Renewable power currently supplies only 1.6% of all consumed power in the U.S. There are currently 35,000 wind powers in the U.S. The total amount of power they supply amounts to 64 Billion KWH, the same amount of power being produced from only four of those large coal fired plants over a whole year. Why I mention this is that for every four of these large coal fired plants that do close down because of this Legislation, you will need to double the number of those wind towers. The time needed to construct that many towers and the cost for all of them would be prohibitive.
Mislead (Again) On Cap And Trade PA Pundits – International
As an aside, at a time when we're trying to shut down coal fired plants, the Chinese are building 500 of them in the next year.
So when you hear the Doyle using the Chinese as a scare tactic to pass his global warming bill, remember that the Chinese are doing the "all of the above" program. They're growing and have no intention of cutting their own throats over an imaginary crisis.
