The Bubble Blowers: Goldman Sachs
by ilene - June 30th, 2009 8:39 pm
The Bubble Blowers: Goldman Sachs
As Cap and Trade races through Congress, here is a question – Who will benefit? The environment and us or Government Sachs?
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Last week the House voted 219-212 to pass HR 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, whose intent is to "create clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy." I’ve only had time to browse the 1,092 page bill and sincerely believe it will not achieve a single one of its purposes.
The creation of clean energy jobs is very vague and the parts that are clear center not on industry but on educating people about global warming – this appears to signal the creation of a new class of bureaucrat-teachers, not industrial jobs.
Energy independence? Transition to a clean energy economy? Get real, there is nothing of substance in the document that details such a plan, and this is a pipe dream for government to create this. What will you ask? Only a free market, driven by the consumer and free from government interventions can do so, in my opinion.
"Reduce global warming pollution?" Somehow I missed the scientific debate where the global warmers square off against the global coolers and those who believe that ‘the weather just changes, weather you want it to or not’ as I suggested here "Anthropogenic Global Warming or an Ice Age, Which Is It? (PART 2/2)". Is carbon dioxide really a pollutant? Don’t plants need it to live and don’t we all respire it? It would be a lot cheaper and a lot more useful than HR 2454!
My own private analysis of HR 2454 can be summarized up with:
- Inefficient energy sources will instead be propped up and buffered from free market competition by the government.
- The taxed companies will pass down the taxes to We the People, and energy costs will rise for us, the consumers.
- The State will subsidize and hence sponsor, mandated education that "global warming" is fact, stifling debate.
- Wall Street will have a great time doing all the carbon credits trading using