re: #25 Charles

Unfortunately, cap and tax is a watered down, neutered piece of legislation that doesn’t go nearly far enough to have any effect on the problem.

It’s also the wrong kind of approach.
I think the right wing is seriously missing out on advocating free market solutions to global warming. What we should acknowledges is that in this case the free market fails because of an future cost to society for certain products right now in the form of global warming that isn’t being paid by anyone. Therefore the government must correct the free market’s negligence to the invisible cost to society by taxing but they must let the innovating and search for solutions to the free market.

That means:
-no subsidies for new technologies
-no rules on how to design cars
-no cap and trade witch is going to be an bureaucratic nightmare.

Just taxes.
This might be a strange slogan for the right but I say taxes taxes taxes!
It doesn’t take any bureaucracy, no complicated rules and gives by far the best results
Currently gasoline is taxed with like 18 cents/gallon just make it a dollar or two and watch how soon the free market creates efficient cars
Instead of making a hugely complex cap and trade system why not just tax emissions? etc. etc.