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“Cap and Trade already passed in West Virginia. Just with a different name.
Manchin, was for it, had no problem with people paying ‘carbon tax’...”

——Yep. I just saw this article (what a fraud this guy is):

“House Bill 103 was passed by the West Virginia legislature and went into effect on July 1, 2009. With the Governor’s blessing, this bill now makes West Virginia the first coal state in the nation to have an “alternative and renewable energy standard,” meaning that in 15 years, 25% of our power plants’ energy will have to be alternative in nature.

That’s a lot of wind energy, folks.

The bill further states that “an electric utility shall have the right to recover the costs of complying with the alternative and renewable energy portfolio standards set forth in this article in a manner prescribed by the commission.”

Would you care to guess who will be paying for this? You will, that’s who.

But we should have seen this coming. Governor Manchin startedto sell out the West Virginia coal industry even before the beginningof his second term as Governor.

In 2008, towards the very end of the Presidential campaign, the Obama Administration trotted out a bonafide coal state Governor named Joe Manchin. Clearly, Manchin’s job as a perceived pro-coal Governor was to show how “reasonable” Obama’s position on cap and trade and a carbon tax really was.

Here’s the exact quote from Manchin when asked abour cap-and-trade and a carbon tax on MSNBC’s “Power Lunch” program on November 3, 2008. Manchin was out there doing his best to help Obama win the election:

“We’re going to have a very aggressive renewable portfolio, but we need that partnership and Barack brings that leadership to us. He brings that partnership coming from a coal state himself. Now, they’re going to have to pay for the carbons – whether a cap-and-trade or whether it’s in a carbon tax.”

http://www.huntingtonnews.net/editor/100914-ed.html