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To: KLP who wrote (202065)	4/11/2007 4:16:59 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 793843

>>Geeze what kind of idiot came up with that lamebrainned idea?<< The idea of an emissions cap-and-trade system is to inject free market principals into environmental management. The USA's SO2 trading system under the 1990 Clean Air Act is cited as a successful example. See: en.wikipedia.org The US pushed the idea for CO2 trading under the Kyoto Protocol, so I suppose you can blame iGore's people. Although the US SO2 system seems to be working, I think there are huge problems with scaling the concept up to a global carbon scheme.