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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (316571)	7/25/2009 9:11:03 AM
From: DMaA	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793964

It is asinine to call this a free market since half the participants are there because a gun is pointed at their back, and the other half just want free money. It's a legalized mugging.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (316571)	7/26/2009 12:02:23 AM
From: RinConRon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Finally, Henry phoned Gray at the White House and wondered aloud if it might be possible to order the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a federally owned electricity provider, to start buying allowances to compensate for emissions from its coal-fired power plants. In May 1992, the TVA did the first deal at $250 a ton, and the market took off. And where is Gore from? I seem to have forgotten. Nah. It couldn't be that he was a keen observer of a potentially colossal con game in the making. And this one even has a "controlling legal authority."