The Story of Cap & Trade (2009)

iseeu1980 Says:

Apr 22, 2012 - Care to elaborate?

therealallpro Says:

Apr 22, 2012 - she doesn't understand what motivates ppl to action...she has an idea for the world right or wrong her method for changing it towards that direction is not realistic.

Grant Clifford Says:

Apr 26, 2012 - i personally believe we are past changing to use james lovelock's model we are way past the curve and we are plummeting, plus i find climate change debates pointless as no one is doing anything, no one wants to put the effort to get rid of oil and use hydrogen fuel cells.

richardachildress Says:

Apr 29, 2012 - If we were to charge companies for carbon permits then they would just pass the cost along to consumers. We subsidize them because EVERYTHING in our economy is based on fossil fuels and if fossil fuels go down rapidly then so do we. Cap and Trade is the way to go, we just need to constantly enforce it and have strict laws with fair but effective punishments

richardachildress Says:

Apr 29, 2012 - screenshot or it didnt happen

Colleywoodstudios Says:

Apr 29, 2012 - there is video im just not sure where you can find it

Kinkspace Says:

May 10, 2012 - The Military Industrial Complex is the largest user of fossil fuels. Ceasing MIC activity will enable us to reach that target tomorrow.

Kinkspace Says:

May 10, 2012 - ... the joke is if everyone else but the MIC stopped consuming tomorrow it would not be possible to get anywhere close to those targets.

mrzipdisk Says:

May 16, 2012 - Do you have data on this? How do you define "The Military Industrial Complex?"

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - Second question first as it has a baring on the later info; "The Military Industrial Complex" MIC: An informal alliance of the military & related government departments & private corps, with defense industries that is held to influence government policy & economic system wholly linked to military activity & have little or no economic activity that is unrelated or sustainable in the event of peace. cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - "Do you have data on this?" Interesting question with no clear cut answer; the American military is the single largest consumer of energy in the world. However the reality is that even U.S. Department of Defense has no idea precisely where and how much energy it consumes. For security reasons LOL.The DoD's total primary energy consumption in Fiscal Year 2006 was 1100 trillion Btu. It corresponds to only 1% of total energy consumption in USA.cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - The DoD per capita energy consumption (524 trillion Btu) is 10 times more than per capita energy consumption in China, or 30 times more than that of Africa.Total final energy consumption (called site delivered energy by DoD) of the DoD was 844 trillion Btu in FY2006.FACT 2: Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) sold $13 billion of energy to DoD services in FY2006. More than half of it was to Air Force.cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - DESC sets fuel rates paid by military units. Currently, prices are $3.51 a gallon for diesel, $3.15 for gasoline and $3.04 for jet fuel. Avgas, a high-octane fuel used mostly in unmanned aerial vehicles, is sold for $13.61 a gallon.The military consumes about 1.2 million barrels of fuel each month in Iraq at $127.68 a barrel, a price that reflects crude oil refined into usable fuel.cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - The U.S. consumes about 21 million of the 86 million barrels of oil per day demanded on the global market. While the Defense Department is as the nation's single largest user of energy, its 1.6 million gallons a day in Iraq is small relative to the total market.In World War II, the average fuel consumption per service member was about 1.67 gallons a day. In Iraq, it's 27.3 gallons.cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - If the average price of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel is about $3.23, each service member in Iraq is burning about $88 a day.While the majority of fuel consumption is by the military's fleet of planes and helicopters, ground vehicles, too, are notoriously reliant. In general, the Abrams tank, the largest and heaviest of the Army's vehicles, consumes 2 gallons for every mile, while the Bradley fighting vehicle gets a little more than one mile per gallon. cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - The new Mine-Resistant Armored Protective vehicles get less than six miles per gallon. Heavily armoring Humvees has reduced their fuel mileage from about 10 mpg to four. (Manufacturers caution that estimates can vary substantially depending on how the vehicle is used.)cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - Have you ever tried asking how many US bases there are around the world? One would think this was a simple enough question but it really depends who you ask; Department of Defense's 2010 Base Structure Report, as of 2009, the US military maintained 662 foreign sites in 38 countries around the world. But that number represents a reduction from numbers reported by DOD just a few years ago yet non have closed???cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - The USA military spending is higher than the next top 10 countries rolled together (that being China, Russia, UK, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, Brazil & Italy collectively). With the exception of Israel the US is the only MIC based economies in the world.cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - It's inhumane as it's reliant on creating displacement, misery, trauma, injury, murder etc on fellow living breathing human beings including children, ie: those under the age of consent; to give the illusion of profit to a few; which in reality is not profit at all but money laundering from tax payers into the private sectors of a few elite. cont...

Kinkspace Says:

May 17, 2012 - It is economically inefficient & flawed requiring excessive resource input for a negative return. Its a piss poor economic model & grossly inhumane for any rational persons to even consider. Hence the sociopathic psychopaths running it :)I'd love to be a fly on the wall if the occasion ever rose to explain such a system to an alien. :)

Helena Ashton Says:

May 17, 2012 - Totally...

epetrovic87 Says:

May 23, 2012 - Funny how it's not mention that 30 000 scientists form all over the world are not agreeing with man-made global warming. Did you notice because earth is cooling, I can even feel it now, they changed the name from Global Warming to Climate Change? Now everything that happens with the weather is blamed on it, like we didn't have hurricanes, floods and earthquakes before.Not to mention that pro global warming scientists have never agreed to a debate with against glob. warming scientists.

greenman7612 Says:

May 24, 2012 - Typical Marist bullshit! This whole series is so full of nonsense, Unbelievable that the series has so little science behind it.

invisibleaznDJ Says:

May 27, 2012 - I agree cap and trade is bullshit..But this lady is stupid too. She seems to think that the big bankers and UN dbags are the market. Ifwe had a REAL FREE market, we would have had clean green solutions already. Biofuels like biodiesel which in itself has 78% less carbon emissions and is 100% renewable (algae biofuels) would have been readily available to people along time ago. Companies producing biofuels now have to jump through so many hoops put forth by the EPA and other bureaucrats.

invisibleaznDJ Says:

May 27, 2012 - If we respected people's individual rights and actually had real arbitrators to protect these rights, there is no way polluters could get away with polluting anyone's air or property.