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To: Dale Baker who wrote (35533)	3/17/2007 12:13:44 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541733

But while technology will play an indispensable role, the lead authors of the M.I.T. report, writing in The Wall Street Journal, argue that the most effective way to reduce emissions is to attach a significant price to carbon emissions, either as a carbon tax or through a cap-and-trade program of the sort now embodied in various legislative proposals in Congress. Forcing people to pay to pollute would do more than any other known incentive to bring new technologies to commercial scale. That is the task before Congress. On the face of it, these things look as if they are the best way to go. But I worry that it means the wealthier/larger cap companies can buy their way out; and the costs fall on smaller companies.