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   "Orlic"  wrote in message news:Xns9ED3C5917B5B   
   chang@194.177.98.144...   
   > Clyde Armstrong wrote   
   >   
   >> This all-news channel has got off to a good start. It cannot be called   
   >> a Fox News North. Fox News Light would.   
   >   
   > SUN TV proves again that it's an outlet for Communism.   
   >   
   > Cap and Trade was invented by that Communist Reagan and endorsed by his   
   > right wing followers in Canada.   
   >   
   > The GOP Changes Its Tune on Cap and Trade   
   > SOURCE: AP   
   >   
   > Republican presidents Ronald Reagan (above), George H.W. Bush, and George   
   > W. Bush all supported or employed cap and trade.   
   >   
   > By Daniel J. Weiss | October 22, 2010   
   >   
   > Opposition to “cap-and-trade” legislation to reduce global warming   
   > pollution is a common refrain among many Republican and a few Democratic   
   > officials this fall. The program is derided as a “cap and tax” that would   
   > drain voters’ wallets while bankrupting the nation. But ironically enough,   
   > the three most recent Republican presidents promoted cap and trade,   
   > including Ronald Reagan. They employed such a system to phase out lead in   
   > gasoline, cut chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting chemicals, and   
   > reduce sulfur pollution from power plants responsible for acid rain—all   
   > without undue cost. Officials who are criticizing it now are doing so for   
   > political purposes, and they could likely make it harder to employ cost-   
   > effective, market-based policies in the future to significantly lower   
   > pollution at an affordable cost.   
   >   
   > For instance, the “Pledge to America: the 2010 Republican Agenda” promises   
   > to “oppose attempts to impose a national ‘cap and trade’ energy tax.”   
   > After the demise of comprehensive global warming legislation in the   
   > Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) gloated that “cap-and-   
   > trade, which is also known as the national energy tax, is dead in the   
   > United States Senate.”   
   >   
   > Yet many Republican officials greatly admire the father of cap and trade:   
   > President Ronald Reagan. Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) praised Reagan   
   > last year:   
   >   
   > When you realize the magnitude of President Reagan's achievements, there   
   > is absolutely no reason why anyone would ignore his 'demonstrably good'   
   > example.   
   >   
   > Nonetheless, she opposes a global warming plan that would employ the   
   > innovative cap-and-trade system first created by President Reagan. Like   
   > Palin, many of today’s public officials are repudiating Reagan’s legacy of   
   > cap and trade for cheap political gain and to curry favor with the   
   > polluting industries that are supporting attacks on those who voted for a   
   > cap-and-trade market mechanism to reduce global warming pollution.   
   >   
   > A little history is in order. Cap and trade was developed as a more   
   > flexible, market-based system to reduce environmental pollution compared   
   > to the so-called “command and control” model employed by environmental   
   > laws in the 1970s. The old system required each polluting facility to make   
   > a fixed reduction in air or water contamination, which ignored that some   
   > facilities could cut pollution more cheaply than others.   
   >   
   > Cap and trade is a cost-effective alternative that allows the firms that   
   > can more cheaply reduce their emissions below their required limit to sell   
   > any additional reductions to companies that are not able to make   
   > reductions as easily. This creates a system that guarantees a set level of   
   > overall reductions while rewarding the most efficient companies and   
   > ensuring that the cap can be met at the lowest possible cost to the   
   > economy.   
   >   
   > The Reagan White House conceived the first cap-and-trade program to reduce   
   > pollution. It was used in the 1980s to phase out lead in gasoline at a   
   > lower cost. An EPA analysis shows:   
   >   
   > …estimated savings from the lead trading program of approximately 20   
   > percent over alternative programs that did not provide for lead banking, a   
   > cost savings of about $250 million per year.   
   >   
   > President Reagan also signed the Montreal Protocol in 1987 to slash the   
   > production and use of chemicals that deplete the upper ozone layer   
   > essential to screen out cancer-causing ultraviolet rays. His   
   > administration established a cap-and-trade system to implement the   
   > chemical reductions the protocol required. A 2006 scientific assessment   
   > concluded that “the Montreal Protocol is working” to reduce chemicals and   
   > protect the ozone layer.   
   >   
   > President George H.W. Bush, Reagan’s successor, was the first president to   
   > propose the employment of a cap-and-trade system in an environmental law.   
   > The Clean Air Act of 1990 includes his proposed cap-and-trade system to   
   > reduce the sulfur pollution from power plants responsible for acid rain.   
   >   
   > The Clean Air Act passed the Senate by a vote of 89-10 and the House by   
   > 401-25. Many staunch conservatives voted for it including Sens. Kit Bond   
   > (R-Mo), Trent Lott (R-MS), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Strom Thurmond (R-   
   > SC). Conservative House supporters included Reps. Newt Gingrich (R-GA),   
   > Joe Barton (R-TX), Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and Fred   
   > Upton (R-MI).   
   >   
   > When President Bush signed the Clean Air Act into law he highlighted its   
   > innovative cap-and-trade mechanism:   
   >   
   > The acid rain allowance trading program will be the first large-scale   
   > regulatory use of market incentives and is already being seen as a model   
   > for regulatory reform efforts here and abroad.   
   >   
   > By employing a system that generates the most environmental protection for   
   > every dollar spent, the trading system lays the groundwork for a new era   
   > of smarter government regulation; one that is more compatible with   
   > economic growth than using only the command and control approaches of the   
   > past.   
   >   
   > President Bush’s prediction came true. An EPA analysis a decade after the   
   > law was passed determined that the actual cost of cutting sulfur emissions   
   > by 40 percent was substantially lower than it had predicted: “$1 to $2   
   > billion per year, just one quarter of original EPA estimates.” A CAP   
   > analysis determined that in 2006 utility rates were 5 percent lower (in   
   > real dollars) than before the act passed in 1990. And the U.S. economy   
   > added 16 million jobs during this time.   
   >   
   > President George W. Bush also included a cap-and-trade mechanism in his   
   > “Clear Skies” bill that would have amended the Clean Air Act. Upon the   
   > bill’s introduction he noted the success of his father’s cap-and-trade   
   > program:   
   >   
   > The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments have significantly reduced air   
   > pollution, especially through the innovative "cap-and trade" acid rain   
      
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