Cap-and-Trade

Cap-and-trade is a government scheme to put an artificial price on greenhouse gas emissions.  The federal government would create an arbitrary “cap” that covered entities would be required to keep their emissions below.  These entities would also need permits to emit greenhouse gases, which they could “trade” if they managed to limit their emissions below the cap.

Cap-and-trade is the environmental extremists’ attempt to disguise their agenda using market language that Americans are comfortable hearing.  However, over the past several years the scheme has been exposed for what it really is: a huge energy tax.  Cap-and-trade would result in higher energy costs, fewer jobs and less freedom.