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The Blue Green Alliance is advocating for emissions reductions of 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, while individual members recommend a 2020 target of 14 percent to 25 percent fewer emissions compared to 2005 levels.
The Alliance wants legislation to also include a series of provisions that will spread any financial burden more equitably. For example, it advocates emissions allowances are allocated to energy-intensive industries to avoid job losses from international competition. It also wants to help low- and moderate income pay for what will likely be higher energy costs.
"Meeting the challenge to tackle climate change will allow us to build a clean energy economy right here in the United States -- making the parts for wind and solar power and fuel efficient vehicles are just some examples," said Jim Clark, President of IUE-CWA, the Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America. "The economic and climate crises afford us an opportunity to create good, middle-class green jobs."
The Blue Green Alliance members are the United Steelworkers, Sierra Club, Communications Workers of America, Natural Resources Defense Council, Laborers' International Union of North America and Service Employees International Union.
Cap and Trade is a Tax (and beware of unions)
The cap and trade system is a 650 billion dollar stealth tax that will drive up the cost of energy for every taxpayer.
The real purpose of the cap & trade system is to tilt the playing field against carbon producing industries in favor of non-carbon producing industries.
Meanwhile, as it takes 20-30 years for renewables to take hold in this country, the government gets a 650 billion dollar per year windfall profit.
What do they plan to do with this profit. SUBSIDIZE taxpayers for the higher costs of energy they will be experiencing.
Has anyone noticed how the unions are taking over green organizations and jumping in bed in the Obama government over green legislation? If the unions have their way, every good green job will be a union job.
Just as the unions have strangled and killed off most of the U.S. car industry, they now plan to do the same thing in the renewable energy / green industry.
For instance, Obama's new "car czar" has heavy duty union credentials. Obama wants the U. S. car industry to move to "green" car production but he wants the unions to lock up the labor and keep other workers OUT who would work for less money than the unions.
The dirty little secret in Detroit is that if GM offered those automotive plant jobs at half the wages / benefits that the unions are getting, they'd have lines miles long ringing their plants of workers looking to happily accept those jobs. But what you see is union workers within those plants, with really heavy duty high wages, benefits and retirement, staring out at the rest of Detroit workers who are starving, and saying "your not working here, you aren't UNION workers!".
Anyways, I see Cap and Trade and the union sneak up on the green movement as two scenarios that show whats wrong with this country.
CAP and TRADE(TAX)
CAP and TRADE(TAX) ENRON type trading scheme puts the entire U.S. economy at risk.
It will cause terrible spikes in electric bills
and everything else we purchase.
It will lower the standard of living for the middle
class and increase taxes. It would change freedom in America forever.
Why would anyone want socialism?
CAP AND TRADE(TAX)is forcing ENRON onto everyone.