Cap and Trade Energy Prices May Happen Without a Senate Vote

KLBJ radio in Austin, Texas, has exposed that power companies are already investing in cap and trade level technologies to prepare for the coming tax on the air. With the Senate bill stalled in the Senate with talk it may not get through the Senate, some power companies are moving forward with plans to meet the cap and trade requirements.

Austin Energy presented to the Austin City Council a plan for approval. The plan titled “Austin Energy’s Carbon Reduction Plan” goes even further to lower carbon emissions that the guidelines set by the government. Their goal is 20% by 2025, and includes a $2.6 billion investment by Austin Energy, which Austin Energy expect to be higher.

With Hadley CRU scientists facing possible trials for fraud and not following the Freedom of Information Act, with documents showing they fixed global temperature data upwards, and the Senate in disagreement with the cap and trade bill, in which Obama was laughed at in the State of the Union, why would Austin Energy be eager to spend $2.6 billion?

Because like any other regulation, it drives up costs to consumers because there are more hands setting the prices. It’s easier for Austin Energy to raise their costs. Even if the cap and trade bill doesn’t pass, companies like Austin Energy can use their green rhetoric to permanently drive up the costs of their energy prices. Many Americans are going to be forced to pay higher energy costs regardless of cap and trades future, because the electric companies have already bought into the rhetoric knowing green is a money maker. Don’t believe me, look at commercials. By this we are green. It’s meaningless pathos, but it’s pathos that could make the utility companies very rich. Roger Duncan of Austin Energy told the Austin City Council energy prices probably would rise.

Austin Energy is working with the city of Austin to promote cap and trade like inspections. The Austin Energy plan includes the Energy Conservation Audit and Disclosure Ordinance. This would allow environmentalist in Austin to inspect homes that are ten years older or more into homes within the city limit and provide an energy rating for each home. Not only that but the local law would extend into all non-industrial commercial buildings with 5,000 square feet or more and multifamily properties with five or more units, aged 10 years or older.

You see, liberals have figured out they can use the Tenth Amendment to condition people to eventually accepting the federal cap and trade tax scheme. You start allowing it on local levels, and it doesn’t seem so intrusive once the federal government starts enforcing it. You are already conditioned. There are many preparing to get rich from the cap and trade scam, and it’s going to happen even if cap and trade doesn’t immediately pass.