On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 20:37:22 -0800 (PST), Liesander
<lysander@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Mar 6, 12:38 am, "J.H.Boersema" <jo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Trading pollution rights what they are now setting up is a
>> bad idea.
>
>It is actually a great idea.
For the polluters...
>Taxing pollution means that people who
>have a high cost of cleaning up are affected just as equally as people
>who can clean up easily.
Wrong. They are affected more.
>Tradeable permits yields similar amounts of
>low pollution but at lower cost.
To the polluters.
>Those who can clean up cheaply do not
>want the permits and sell to those with a high cost of reducing
>pollution. Society gets the same amount of lower pollution but at less
>cost.
To the polluters. Higher cost to everyone else.
>> An entity making great profits from polluting can
>> buy a lot of pollution rights leaving other companies starved of
>> op****tunity,
>
>It is not about who makes the most profits from pollution.
ROTFL!! Says the guy who wants to secure the profitability of the
worst polluters...
>It is about the cost to clean up.
No, it's about who rightly _BEARS_ that cost: society, or those who
profit by violating others' rights.
>If steel mills cost $1 million to comply to no
>pollution and it cost me $10 then if I get a permit I sell it to the
>steel mill for something under $1 million. Pollution is reduced at the
>cost of $10.
Translation: you get to pocket up to $999,990 in economic rent, and
the steel mill still pollutes.
>If we tax or require all to have the same emissions we
>get similar emissions but at higher cost.
To the polluters. That's called, "justice" -- a concept with which
you have proved you have no familiarity whatsoever.
>It is those firms who will
>have the highest cost of avoiding pollution that will want the permit.
>Those who can clean up cheaper than they get a permit will not want
>the permit.
Preferring to pocket rent, instead. Right.
>>it seems vulnerable to corruption, even worse when done
>> internationally.
>
>Much less vulnerable to corruption than regulation or taxation.
Lie.
-- Roy L
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