Cap and Trade Continued

It has been about a week since I have written anything on this blog yet there is so much happening out there. I originally started this blog as a way to help support the alternative media effort by putting out information that the main media machine has decided not to report on. Actually, they do report what is happening, they just twist it so it seems to be how things are suppose to happen. This is why the alternative media is something that is really needed because it takes the truth and then reports what is really happens.
The fact of the matter here is that I really can not keep up with what is going on out there so I have made this more of an opinion based blog. Taking the facts of what is happening and then injecting my viewpoint with what is happening. I spend hours of my day listening to Alex Jones podcast. I do a lot of traveling so I use this time to listen to him. I monitor the media but after you watch the same report on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and Fox, you find that there is not much time that you need to watch these media outlets to find out what is happening because they all say the same thing. I read Logistics Monster, subscribe to Ron Paul and scan the rest of the alternative media to see what is happening which can take some time.
There is one thing out there that I am not seeing in the alternative media as well as the main line media machine and that is the Cap and Trade aka Al Gore tax that is in the Senate Committee right now. I emailed my Congressman and Senators here in New Jersey a few weeks ago with regards to this and obviously I expressed my concern about this. My main point to them was that I was worried that an environmental issue has now turned in to an economical issue. Cap and Trade, admitted by our President, will increase energy cost by some 70%.
A tax is being used to curtail carbon emmission to reduce what is formally know as "global warming". This system most simple will give an advatage to larger businesses as they will have the capital to control the trade of their emmissions. This will reduce the ability of the smaller businesses to be able to afford to purchase the ability to put out more emmissioins because the levels that they will be allowed to have will be much lower then what they have right now so they will have to trade with the larger companies and that price of doing this will destroy their companies. They will not be able to keep up basically.
I stated above that I emailed my Senetors and I did get a response to my email from Senator Robert Menendez and hear is what he had to say, "Thank you for contacting me regarding climate change legislation. Your opinion is very important to me, and I appreciate the opportunity to respond to you on this critical issue.
I understand your concern with the economic impact of this legislation. Like you, I believe it is vital that we carefully consider and prepare for how a cap and trade program will affect the daily lives of those at every income level. That is why I cosponsored an amendment that offered increased protections for low-income families, while moving forward with the fight against global warming.
However, it is important to remember that the costs of ignoring global warming far outweigh the costs of acting now to reduce emissions. For instance, recent projections in New Jersey predict that the Jersey Shore could erode inland by as much as 300 yards because of sea level rise by the end of this century. This would cost our state billions in tourism revenue as well as destroy what I consider a national treasure. Please rest assured, however, that careful consideration of any economic impacts from climate change legislation is a priority for me, and I will keep your opinions in mind as we continue to debate and discuss this topic."
Now I am not going to say what really want to with regards to the Senators PR'ish answer to me because he was the only on that actually answered me. I did respond asking two questions, where and what is this tax money going to be used for and I asked him to contact NASA to find out if the earths tempature has gone up or down over the last few years. The answer to this is that it has gone down which is why we are referring to global warming now as climate change. We will see what his answer is on this. I did point out to him that is concern about lower income families was "nice" but the tax basis for this counrty and voter basis in this country is the middle class so he needs to be concerned with them as well. Sphere: Related Content