Comments on: Northeast States Don’t Need Feds to Cap Emissions

By: The Most Important Barack Obama Appointee: EPA Administrator Short List : Red, Green, and Blue

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:13:38 +0000

[...] Ian Bowles-Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Leader: Bowles worked with officials from other Northeast U.S. states to open the first American market for trading greenhouse gas permits. [...]

By: Schwarzenegger Tosses ‘Boomerang’ to Foreign Countries on GHGs | ecopolitology

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:05:21 +0000

[...] Thursday, 10 Northeastern states kicked off the first U.S. cap-and-trade market under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The unexpectedly strong demand at North [...]

By: First Carbon Auction in U.S. Hailed as Big Success : Red, Green, and Blue

First Carbon Auction in U.S. Hailed as Big Success : Red, Green, and Blue — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:23:57 +0000

[...] week at RG&B, we reported that the nation’s first cap-and-trade for greenhouse gas emissions was moving ahead with the [...]

By: Thug Obama

Thug Obama — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:53:42 +0000

I’ll put a cap somewhere.

By: Rod Adams

Rod Adams — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:31:18 +0000

Amanda:

You wrote: "I think the states should use that money as subsidies to residents and local businesses who use, say, expensive solar panels in their homes and other green technology. Hopefully the money won’t just go into budgets or big corporations."

Generally speaking, the companies that produce solar panels are large corporations like BP Solar and Sharp. Any subsidies of middle to upper middle class residents and businesses that use those feel good, but not especially economic energy sources will reduce the amount of money available to help low income people adjust to significantly higher energy costs.

The money will flow through those higher income people – you will not see many solar panels on the high rise apartments or tightly packed townhomes inhabited by lower income people – to those major corporations.