This really speaks for itself:
The way that you get clean energy up in your country and get the innovation up in your country and the jobs up in your country is push down on the old dirty stuff. Ok? So to get the clean stuff up you gotta push down on the dirty stuff. There’s only three ways to do that.
You either regulate the dirty polluters real hard – regulation; You tax them real hard – carbon tax; or you make them buy permits for all that stuff they are putting up in the air. Those are your only three options. Regulate them hard, tax them hard, or make them buy permits. Making them buy permits is called Cap and Trade.
Unfortunately, the minute we did that, the Cap and Trade proposal got called Cap and Tax and everything else and socialism, and now we are without an option. Your country has no solution now to the biggest problem we’ve ever faced from an ecological point of view and no way to get to the biggest opportunity we ever had to make another point of view.
So the only thing left for you young folks, next year, is to go back to the EPA and say listen, we tried to PRETEND that what was going on was a market failure (i.e. we had the price wrong for carbon, the price being zero) and that didn’t work. So now we are are going to have to PRETEND like it’s a regulatory failure.
This is important for you to know young folks because if we’re not careful by this time next year, Congress may eliminate the Clean Air Act at the EPA – they said they want to do that. So then we won’t be able to regulate, we won’t be able to tax, we won’t be able to sell permits. We’re just going to be cooking the planet and losing the jobs.
Kudos to The Blaze for getting this out!