CCX member list. Keep in mind that this is not the only carbon exchange in the country now. Also notice that there are states, municipalities, and universities on the list. That means taxpayer money going down that hole. I also wonder about how much bailout money went into it as well.
http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/content.jsf?id=64
Senator Gillibrand’s own words, from November of 2009 Wall Street Journal, show that the real purpose of Barack Obama’s climate change legislation is to give Wall Street speculators yet another tulip bulb scheme to replace the mess (mortgage backed securities) for which we are still paying with a $750 billion stimulus package, various bailouts at the taxpayers’ expense, and ten percent unemployment.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704500604574481812686144826.html
Senator Gillibrand says openly the real purpose of cap and trade is not to protect the environment, but to line the pockets of fat-cat speculators who cannot produce goods or services that are of genuine value to society.
Kirsten Gillibrand has just put it on record that the Democrats are no longer the party of “working Americans”, they are the party of the New York Stock Exchange, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs.