Cap and trade "inventor" tiptoeing away from idea

[Facetious]

Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators

By JON HILSENRATH
Wall Street Journal

In the 1960s, a University of Wisconsin graduate student named Thomas Crocker came up with a novel solution for environmental problems: cap emissions of pollutants and then let firms trade permits that allow them to pollute within those limits.
[Crocker] UW Photo Services

When he was a graduate student in the 1960s working to reduce pollutants, Thomas Crocker devised a cap-and-trade system similar to one being considered in Congress.

Now legislation using cap-and-trade to limit greenhouse gases is working its way through Congress and could become the law of the land. But Mr. Crocker and other pioneers of the concept are doubtful about its chances of success. They aren't abandoning efforts to curb emissions. But they are tiptoeing away from an idea they devised decades ago, doubting it can work on the grand scale now envisioned.

"I'm skeptical that cap-and-trade is the most effective way to go about regulating carbon," says Mr. Crocker, 73 years old, a retired economist

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[titsrock]

All you needed to do was include the very next sentence from this article.

He says he prefers an outright tax on emissions because it would be easier to enforce and provide needed flexibility to deal with the problem.

:bowdown::thumbsup::thumbsup::bowdown:

This guy IS smart!

 

[Magnet]

All you needed to do was include the very next sentence from this article.



:bowdown::thumbsup::thumbsup::bowdown:

This guy IS smart!

Another tax on business...yeah thats a smart idea.

 

[titsrock]

^Oh, I see, there is no pollution, right? Or, certainly, nothing that big business had anything to do with. Maybe it was the animals that caused all this pollution?

Welcome to the future of the human race...

 

[Will E Worm]

Another tax on business...yeah thats a smart idea.

I agree. They are trying to bring about a slow death to this country by taxes everything and everyone for just about anything.

A tax on emissions, would be a dream come true for Socialist Communists.

"I'm skeptical that cap-and-trade is the most effective way to go about regulating carbon," says Mr. Crocker, 73 years old, a retired economist

At least in his senility he said he was "skeptical."
He should just say he was wrong and it was a ludicrous idea to begin with.

Now it's off to the nursing home with OL' Thomas Crocker.

 

[shaggydude]

global warming?....no such thing!!!!

media makes us believe that it exists.......and the government will save the planet?.........how?........

........carbon taxes?.......SCAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!