[Superman]

The link Ron provided is interesting, as expected. The link provided by Mule is drivel, as expected. Mule, there are certain reports that seem to have been written starting with the conclusion, and then working backward through the "facts." You call this "research," I imagine. I occasionally find them useful for purposes of entertainment. Which, think, is also your interest, really.

In college (yeah, I know......just a bunch of liberal fruitcakes indoctrinating young people in communism but you know what......that's where YOUR beloved "scientists" got their degrees. Those who have degrees), it's pretty easy to find a discussion about connecting environmental costs to production costs. You see, the problem has been that certain environmental disasters have been created by businesses who sold the products and did not include the cost of environmental cleanup in their productions costs, or in the selling price. Later, the taxpayer comes in and spends bazillions (maybe even as much as a gazillion or two) to do the cleanup. Conservative economists (yeah, right. there's an oxymoron) are not comfortable with the production and sale of products at costs lower than the full actual cost of production, including environmental cleanup.

Yes, legislation is needed in order to include cleanup costs with production costs. Again, I am still thinking of environmental damage that cannot be denied (pool of PCB's under the manufacturing plant, for example) or dismissed. Of course, you guys love to dismiss environmental damage that cannot be photographed and proven.

If anybody chimes in with the "global warming is a hoax" deflection, I'm going to regard them as someone who does not understand the topic of this thread. The hoax deflection is not a way of addressing the topic of this thread but rather, a way of evading the topic altogether. The topic of this thread is the "cap and trade" legislation under consideration. If you don't understand, just read.....don't write.

And BTW, the bill has nothing whatsoever to do with "global welfare" or "raise gas $1.50 per gallon."