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« on: August 26, 2009, 09:55:18 AM »

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So let’s add that up — the USDA’s analysis ignores roughly two-thirds of American agriculture. Yet it unequivocally states that cap-and-trade is good for American agriculture?

Furthermore, the USDA has assumed that free allowances would be sufficient to keep fertilizer prices from rising but provides no explanation for how many allowances will be needed. In a recent letter, the Fertilizer Institute called this portion of the analysis “incorrect and misleading.” The USDA has failed to model the total impact of the bill, focusing on only a few hundred of the bill’s 1,427 pages.

Anyone read the bill?

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Lastly, the secretary fails to mention perhaps the most critical point: The bill would fail to achieve its purported environmental goal of stopping climate change because agriculture producers and manufacturing in China, India and Brazil would in no way be affected by the bill. Without them, the impact on temperature is negligible, a fact acknowledged by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Can anyone really dial down global temperature?  Controll the wind?  Rain?  Storms?  The stuff of Science Fiction books?

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It’s also worth noting that the secretary wholeheartedly supported the bill long before he “instructed” USDA staff to review its impact. One wonders if the incomplete analysis accounts for the secretary’s support, or if the analysis was instead driven by the support.

So what are we left with? A bill that would place additional tax burdens on American businesses during a severe recession for no discernible environmental gain. A bill that would ask Nebraskans to trust the federal government to provide enough free allowances so the increased energy costs would not put them out of business.

Like the secretary, I am supremely confident that American agriculture can adapt. But that’s no justification to support a bad bill.

While Americans will face down any challenge facing them, their lawmakers should not be in the business of creating additional ones.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20090826/NEWS0802/708269993

A bill that raises prices on Main Street, small business, and agriculture.

Who gets all the profits?
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