Cap and Trade

I am not a big believer in the Global Warming crisis. I do not doubt that the world is warming. I imagine that humans do play a part in that. However I do doubt how much can be done about it. I read recently that all of the fossil fuels used in the world amount to less than half the carbon released by the cutting of the rain forests. If this is the case it may not be something that we can so much stop as limit.

So the cap and trade policies that the Obama administration talks about may seem not important. I disagree but for a different reason.

Our country currently has a massive oil spill they cannot control and a dependence on foreign oil which costs us billions each year in secondary costs.

A cap and trade policy would make energy efficient means cost comparable to fossil fuels and thus more cost efficient and in fact once that happened probably lead to future discoveries to reduce cost even more.

Reducing our dependence of foreign oil should be a Populist credo. The same should be done with foreign products as well. Obama I believe is too much of a one world guy to go down that road.

It is unfortunate. Perhaps Americans have not been asked to sacrifice for the good of the country in so long that they could not do it. I like to think shared sacrifice would work. I favor it.