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  Confusion? That's not what I heard. I'd say the Senators were more disgusted with the volatility, gaming and free allowances under the cap/trade bill. Fortunately, all the economists testified that these pitfalls can be avoided by setting a carbon fee directly and by distributing revenues to households via a direct "dividend" or by reducing other taxes. The big surprise for me: Sen. Murkowski seems to be considering the kind of cap-and-dividend approach that Cantwell is working up. And Cantwell railed against the "shenanigans" of markets and manipulation saying they won't be tolerated. Can hardly wait to hear the splash as the 1400-page Waxman-Markey bill (with Volume II as Kerry-Boxer) is thrown overboard and hits the water. For more on the advantages of a simple revenue-neutral carbon fee to drive a low-carbon, green jobs economy, visit http://www.carbontax.org. We're thrilled that Progressive Democrats of America now strongly supports a direct carbon price!On Confusion in the Senate regarding allowance allocation posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago 1 Response

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  We can avert disaster: Last month in the journal "Science," Michael McElroy, an environmental scientist at Harvard University, published a study showing that China is windy enough to supply all its electricity from wind power by 2030. McElroy and his colleagues calculated that if China wanted to save 30 percent of the future growth of its CO2 emissions by 2030 by using electricity generated by wind rather than coal, the total cost would be about $900 billion over the 20-year period. Sounds like a lot of money, but WE CAN DO THIS!!!On The economics of 350 posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago 4 Responses

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  The report's bottom line: The climate crisis demands "maximum progress" on decarbonizing our economy. NOW! What's the policy that gets maximum progress by spurring both the private and the public sectors to decarbonize? It's a simple, revenue-neutral carbon fee -- a price on every ton of CO2 emitted, with every dollar returned to households. Cut Wall St. out of the game and set the price directly. If we don't take that first step to begin to tilt the economic tables away from fossil fuels, no other policy will be as effective as it could be, and many will not work at all. In short, it's price carbon or we're toast. For more on revenue-neutral carbon pricing, see http://www.carbontax.org.On The economics of 350 posted 1 month ago 4 Responses

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  Van,

  
  Glad you're determined to keep the focus on green jobs in a low-carbon economy. 

  Have you considered supporting a revenue-neutral carbon tax?  A broad (bipartisan) consensus of economists and policy analysts (and a growing coalition of environmental activists) conclude it's by far the most effective and fair policy to stimulate both private and public sector investment and jobs in a green economy while pumping revenue back to all households -- especially benefitting low and middle income families.  For more information, visit the Carbon Tax Center.  Far better to level the playing field with a pricing system promoting alternatives (jobs building wind, solar and mass transit) and conservation (jobs building and retrofitting houses, buildings and factories) than to rely on a patchwork of government programs whose funding couldn't possibly match the private sector and would vary every year.  

  Your firing for signing a petition calling for investigation of 9-11 strikes me as absurd.  In "The Man Who Knew," (2002) PBS showed how the Bush Administration pulled FBI anti-terrorism specialist John O'Neill off the trail of Al Qaeda.  There's no question of their responsibility.  Al Franken (and his team of Harvard researchers) also documented Bush administration malfeasance that lead to the 9-11 attacks in his book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them".  Nobody's questioning Franken's bona fides.  But none of this can be news to you.

  To me, and probably many others, your departure leaves a lot of unanswered questions.  My sense is that you're a hero and that your full story hasn't yet been told.

  Van fan,

  James Handley

  On A message from Van Jones posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago 16 Responses

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  Van,

  
  Glad you're determined to keep the focus on green jobs and building a low carbon economy. 

  Have you considered supporting a revenue-neutral carbon tax?  A broad (bipartisan) consensus of economists and policy analysts (and a growing coalition of environmental activists) conclude it's by far the most effective and fair policy to stimulate both private and public sector investment and jobs in a green economy while pumping revenue back to all households -- especially benefitting low and middle income families.  For more information, visit the Carbon Tax Center.  Far better to level the playing field with a pricing system promoting alternatives (jobs building wind, solar and mass transit) and conservation (jobs building and retrofitting houses, buildings and factories) than to rely on a patchwork of government programs whose funding couldn't possibly match the private sector and would vary every year. 

  Your firing (ostensibly) for signing a petition calling for investigation of 9-11 strikes me as absurd.  In "The Man Who Knew," (2002) PBS showed how the Bush Administration pulled FBI anti-terrorism specialist John O'Neill off the trail of Al Qaeda.  There's no question of their responsibility.  Al Franken (and his team of Harvard researchers) also documented Bush administration malfeasance that lead to the 9-11 attacks in his book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them".  Nobody's questioning Franken's bona fides.  But none of this can be news to you.

  To me, and probably many others, your departure leaves a lot of unanswered questions.  My sense is that you're a hero and that your full story hasn't yet been told.

   

  Van fan,

  James Handley

  On A message from Van Jones posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago 16 Responses