Quote Originally Posted by jwp View Post
Chicken Little is always worried that the sky is falling.

This website is owned and operated by the oil companies Marathon and Speedway. Anytime a corporate special interest group/lobbyist puts out information supposedly looking out for the consumer, make sure you have your boots on. They are ONLY interested in profits to their shareholders and bonuses to upper management. PERIOD.

There is extensive online discussion about The American Clean Energy and Security Act, just google it. There are definitely some problems with cap and trade, and there are compelling reasons why we need to address our energy sources, production and requirements.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the day when I can pull a boat with an efficient and affordable hybrid truck. This bill, among many other things, does promote R and D in hybrid/electric technology and provides assistance and incentive for the automotive industry to re-tool.
There is nothing wrong with Marathon making profits or looking out for their shareholders. We have a Marathon refinery here in our town. I can not tell you how much money they donate to this community (over and above their 20 million payroll) they are a great corporate neighbor. Cap and Trade is a terrible bill plus it is all about global warming and it is not in my mind a proven science, it is a weather pattern. When I was in college in 1966 I had a professor claim the ice age was coming that if we had a cooling of 3 degree days we could not raise corn in Illinois and at the rate we were going it would happen in fifty to 75 years. I think we have a lot less carbon emissions now than we did in 1966.
I talked to the refinery plant manager here and he said if this cap and trade bill passed there not only would be high prices there would be gas rationing. WE NEED TO DRILL OFF SHORE NOW. How ever cap and trade is all about global warming. If we pass it and the large polluters like China and Mexico will thumb their noses at us we will not be able to compete with them. I think Marathon would be irresponsible if they did not look out for themselves.