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Any congress critter cooperating with this should be (and will) be thrown out at the earliest opportunity.

Economics appear to be well beyond their simple mental processes. Science is on an entirely different quantum level.

Leave us alone congress. Go an play with your corrupt friends and await the upcoming firing squad.

Graham isn't mentioned here but I think it is a fine example of why cap and trade isn't dead. This one is about Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Bloomberg touring the carbon trading floor and talking about investing taxpayer money in the carbon trading scam.

Gov. Schwarzenegger also announced an executive order directing California Secretary for Environmental Protection Linda Adams to coordinate state climate change policy. The executive order, which will formally be signed on Tuesday, also instructs the secretary to work with the California Air Resources Board to seek to develop a framework that allows California to work together with RGGI. Such an arrangement would help build a large, robust carbon trading market that will dramatically reduce emissions.

RGGI (pronounced ReGGIe) is a cooperative effort by Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to discuss the design of a regional cap-and-trade program initially covering carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the region. In the future, RGGI may be extended to include other sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and greenhouse gases other than CO2.

Currently, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont are participating in the RGGI effort. Legislation was signed in April 2006 that requires Maryland to become a full participant in the process by June 30, 2007. In addition, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, the Eastern Canadian Provinces and New Brunswick are observers in the process.

Earlier in the day, Gov. Schwarzenegger toured a greenhouse gas emissions credit trading desk at Credit Suisse with New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/4449

Cap and trade isn't going to die easy because too many of our elected people will be left holding an empty bag that is supposed to hold our money. I'm sure there's a lot of private money riding on the sucess of the scam. I'm aware the Evan Bayh and Dick Lugar have thier own private sequestration projects going on. (They're making money by owning land and letting the trees grow)