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Originally posted by interventor1:
The Obama budget contains a $646 billion dollar cap and trade tax spread over 10 years. Cap and trade only works if CO2 production is reduced. Using NG produces CO2. How do you cut CO2 and use more NG?
NG produces far less CO2 btu for btu than does coal. I'm surprised you were not aware of that.
Yes, it is a hydrocarbon, and does produce CO2, but as it turns out, if we were to use more NG and less coal , we would cut carbon in the atmosphere.
My personal preference would be to standardize a limited number of nuclear power plant designs and assure the power industry that if those specific units were built to those specific designs, the plant would be licensed. More nuclear power plants would be built, and older coal plants could be phased out. As more wind turbines are built in the plains, and more solar pannels are installed in the sun belt, along with the Pickens plan to run trucks, especilly fleet vehicles on NG, the carbon load may in fact be drastically reduced,
One more thing that the Democrats have done since being in power that the Republicans would not allow during their reign of terror, is tax credits for you and I as homeowners to put in in solar or wind generation . Them tax cuttin' Democrats ! Cut taxes now, and save on power bills from now on.
Check it out - what you can do now to help the situation and your self (well not YOU interventor as it probably wouldn't apply to your house in Europe), but you get the idea.
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