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Cap and Trade Pros and Cons

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Racer X6/29/2009 12:15:31 pm PDT

re: #60 DesertSage

The Biggest Economic Mistake Since The Days Of Herbert Hoover!

Tom McClintock gets it.

The City of Truckee, California was about to sign a long-term power contract to get its electricity from a new, EPA-approved coal-fired electricity plant in Utah. AB 32 and companion legislation caused them to abandon that contract. The replacement power they acquired literally doubled their electricity costs.

So when economists warn that we can expect electricity prices to double under the cap and trade bill, I can tell you from bitter experience that in my district, that’s not a future prediction, that is an historical fact.