You are who you pretend to be

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The Waxman Cap & Trade bill requires carbon labeling.  Carbon labeling?

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Section 274 of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill calls for an Environmental Protection Agency study “to determine the feasibility of establishing a national program for measuring, reporting, publicly disclosing, and labeling products or materials sold in the United States for their carbon content.” The purpose of the study would be to determine “whether a national product carbon disclosure program and labeling program would be effective in achieving the intended goals of achieving greenhouse gas reductions.”

That’s right. Next to your nutrition label or safety warning, you could see a carbon footprint telling you how much carbon dioxide businesses emitted to make that product. Sounds harmless. Silly, but harmless.  But it may be more harmful than imagined—think of the additional costs this would place on businesses. 

How can one seriously propose raising the cost of products when the proponents like Al Gore live in a carbon spewing mansion?

According to a BusinessWeek article, “The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.”

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