First, there's your host, who seems as excited to be attending a baseball game as I would be attending a Jonas Brothers concert. Now the video:
Premise: What if you combined confusion about sports salary caps with confusion about how a global warming pollution cap-and-trade system works?
Result: Two minutes of people babbling so incoherently it seems like they'd just finished a kegstand (specifically the poor woman at 1:10)
OK, so a major problem leaps off the page with this video. It asks "What do baseball salary caps have in common with cap and trade?" But baseball doesn't have a salary cap. And most baseball fans want one. It would help up-and-coming teams compete with the established heavyweights.
The analogy actually does a much better job of explaining both why baseball doesn't have a cap and why America hasn't started the transition to clean energy through cap-and-trade. The organizations that already have the most money and power are blocking progress for the rest of us. Yes, I just compared the Yankees to Big Oil. That just happened.
To learn more about the polluter front group that produced the video, check out DailyFinance.com.
So serious questions, and let's drop the inane cap and trade, salary cap comparison.
ReplyDeleteHow much do you expect folks' energy bills to increase should cap and trade be enacted? Could you realistically put in any regulations to cap energy bills? Do you really think wind, solar, and tidal can replace coal, gas, oil, and nuclear power, and if so, on what time frame?
1) I expect power bills to go down as we make power companies partners in energy efficiency
ReplyDelete2) Cap energy bills? What are you, a communist?
3) Level the playing field by making polluters pay for their pollution and let the market answer that question