It all sounds like Enron Creative Accounting 101.
"Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines, two of his top underlings and select individuals in the "green" movement were inventing a patented system to trade residential carbon credits. Patent No. 6904336 was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office on Nov. 7, 2006 -- the day after Democrats took control of Congress."I hadn't heard about Fannie Frank's cap-and-tax scam to monopolize residential trading! I know big-Al is scheming to control the global commercial markets.
Think of the residential $ and trade volume, as well as the accumulation of private household data, the ability to monetize the data (knowing what brand / type of appliances everyone uses, when, how long, etc.), and the ability to control all electronic household activities (he's surfing Free Republic or watching Fox News - time for a blackout)...!
There's a big push for "smart" residential meters. It's all being tied together with very granular management control. I think "going green" means eliminating reliance on external energy sources.