{"id":1085,"date":"2009-08-12T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2009-08-12T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T20:17:04","slug":"lets_not_forget_cap_and_trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1085","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Not Forget Cap And Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/climate-bill-could-cost-2-million-jobs-2009-08-12.html\">The Hill<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article today on the cost of the Cap and Trade Bill.&nbsp; According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) released a study Wednesday that found under a high-cost scenario the House global warming bill could reduce economic growth by 2.4 percent and cost 2 million jobs by 2030.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even if you believe in the concept of man affecting the earth&#8217;s climate, that is a very high price.&nbsp; The biggest impact of the bill will be in the manufacturing segment of the economy.&nbsp; Environmentalists have obviously objected to the numbers in the study.&nbsp; Part of the difference in the cost is the environmentalists assumption that 95 new nuclear plants would be built by 2030.&nbsp; NAM and ACCF assumed that only 10 to 25 nuclear plants would be built in the next two decades.&nbsp;&nbsp; Currently, we are in a 30-year period in which very few new&nbsp;nuclear plants were built; since mid-2007, there have been 17 license applications to build 26 new nuclear reactors.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Analyses by the EIA, Environmental Protection Agency and Congressional Budget Office can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/oiaf\/servicerpt\/hr2454\/index.html\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.doe.gov\/oiaf\/servicerpt\/hr2454\/index.html\"><font color=\"#0b176b\">here<\/font><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climatechange\/economics\/economicanalyses.html#hr2452\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climatechange\/economics\/economicanalyses.html#hr2452\"><font color=\"#0b176b\">here<\/font><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/103xx\/doc10327\/06-19-CapAndTradeCosts.pdf\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/103xx\/doc10327\/06-19-CapAndTradeCosts.pdf\"><font color=\"#0b176b\">here<\/font><\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill&nbsp;posted an article today on the cost of the Cap and Trade Bill.&nbsp; According to the article: &#8220;The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) released a study Wednesday that found under a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1085\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}