Roylat.com » Carbon Trading http://roylat.com Commentary on a Mixed Up and Sometimes Backward World Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:37:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Cap and Trade Fraud in Germany http://roylat.com/2009/12/cap-and-trade-fraud-in-germany/ http://roylat.com/2009/12/cap-and-trade-fraud-in-germany/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:50:14 +0000 roylat http://roylat.com/2009/12/cap-and-trade-fraud-in-germany/ In a paragraph I omitted in the previous post, Mr. Hansen warned that cap and trade would enrich speculators and create opportunities for fraud:

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If that isn’t bad enough, nolvadex buy Wall Street is poised to make billions of dollars in the “trade” part of cap-and-trade.

The amoxil online market for trading permits to emit carbon appears likely to be loosely regulated, to be open to speculators and to include buy cheap ampicillin derivatives. All viagra generic online the profits of Levitra Professional Viagra online Levitra”>Brand Levitra this pollution buy buy viagra online discount amoxicillin trading system would weight loss acomplia be extracted from the public via increased energy prices.

Today’s Der Spiegel Amoxil buy cheap documents that fraud is not merely a possibility but already big business.

The fraud detailed here is undoubtedly the tip levitra brand of a large iceberg.

Fraudulent Emissions-Trading Schemes Rob German Tax Authorities

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12/07/2009 –Der Speigel

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The Kyoto Protocol introduced a scheme for trading emissions certificates

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"It’s about the way we live, and it’s about survival," Röttgen said last Thursday levaquin sildenafil citrate prescription purchase prescription generic kamagra drugs online before the German parliament, the Bundestag, referring to the climate summit beginning Monday in Copenhagen.

At the summit, the nations of the world will search for ways to reduce the CO2 emissions behind global warming.

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ine Hansen was one of the earliest warning of global warning and today one of the most prominent of those warning of the consequences of failing to curb carbon emissions.

In an op-ed piece in Sunday’s New York Times, Hansen challenges the “cap Online buy Viagra and trade”

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Every economist that I know favors a tax on buy viagra online discount | buy cialis cialis | buy levitra online cheap carbon rather than cap and trade.

Mr. Hansen proposes to couple buy ampicillin online the tax with an equal viagra sales “dividend” paid back to the people – creating amoxil online what could be amoxicillin a politically appealing alternative to cap and online ampicillin trade. He explains why this approach would be far superior to cap and trade. Unfortunately, economic efficiency and fairness to the common people seem to have little weight in our political system, even with Obama as the supposed head of our government.

Below are some excerpts with a link to the full story.

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To compound matters, the Congressional carbon cap would also encourage “offsets” — alternatives to emission reductions, like planting trees on degraded land or avoiding deforestation in Brazil.

Caps would be raised by the offset amount, even if such offsets are imaginary or unverifiable. buy amoxil buy cialis tablets Stopping deforestation in one area does not reduce demand for lumber or food-growing land, so deforestation simply moves elsewhere.

Once again, lobbyists are providing the real leadership on climate change legislation.

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There is a better alternative, one that would be more efficient and less costly than cap and trade: “fee and dividend.” Under this approach, a gradually rising carbon fee would be collected at the mine or port of entry for each fossil fuel (coal, oil and gas). The fee would be uniform, a certain number of generic propecia dollars per ton of carbon dioxide in the fuel.

The public would not directly pay any fee, but the price of goods would online levitra rise in proportion to how much carbon-emitting fuel is used in their production.

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All of the collected fees would then be distributed to the public.

Prudent people would use their dividend wisely, adjusting their lifestyle, choice of buy levitra vardenafil vehicle and so on. Those who do better than average 0nline pharmacy in choosing less-polluting goods would receive more in the dividend than they pay in added costs.

For example, when the fee reached $115 per ton of carbon dioxide it would add $1 per gallon to the price of gasoline and 5 to 6 cents per kilowatt-hour to

the price of electricity. Given the amount of oil, gas and coal used in the can you buy prescription drugs online without a prescription United States in 2007, that carbon fee would yield about $600 billion per year. The resulting dividend for each adult American would be as much as $3,000 per year. As the fee rose, tipping points would be reached at which various carbon-free energies and carbon-saving technologies would

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It argues that although renewable energy in Germany has been an amazing success story, it hasn’t reduced carbon emissions

– because the windmills buy viagra online pharmacy | buy cialis online overnight | levitra vardenafil get carbon-saving Cialis cheap buy cialis overseas certificates that are then sold to others to allow them to emit an equal amount (cap and trade). The total amount is fixed independently of the installation of renewable energy; so the only effect buy cialis pills on climate from renewable energy cialis viagra online sale 20 mg cost is to make carbon-emission viagra prices rights cheaper (by increasing the supply).  There would seem to be important lessons here for the U.S.

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Despite Europe’s amoxicillin levitra online price amoxil boom in solar and wind energy, CO2 emissions buy cialis pills online haven’t been reduced cheap amoxicillin Buy Generic Viagra cytotec by even a single gram.

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As astonishing as it may sound, the new wind turbines and solar cells haven’t prohibited buy buy Buy Cipro Online ampicilin online cheap amoxicillin the emission of even a single gram of CO2.

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