But they can't just go out and buy them, they can't deal with a foreign government directly. They must use an authorized broker to buy the offsets from, let's say Mumbai, who has no real industry and also no human rights. But they do have a "carbon offset surplus". The broker then gets his cut from both the purchasing entity AND the nation from which they arrange the offset.

And who is an authorized broker? The largest is Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C. This particular company was founded by none other than Al Gore and a partner back in 2003, at a cost to each of $250,000 each. They each stand to make over $250 billion by selling and trading carbon offsets. Sure makes it look like Gore has a vested interest in the hoax known now as "climate change". No wonder he's pushing it so hard. And it's also no wonder that Congress is pushing his agenda. I wonder how much their payoff will be?

This American society all boils down to hard working men and women in every sized business. With the economy so dysfunctional at the moment we hard workers are strapped for any spare time so we entrust those we have placed into government office to manage the store while we are off busy doing our part which makes this country great. Freedoms have a high price, and thank the soldiers and veterans for their extremely generous gift. However Freedom is about the individual making choices by doing your job, going to school, creating a business, discovering innovation and spending those extra hours not having fun, but doing the important things necessary to keep it all going. Choice is training oneself in any method possible to improve your skills, tools and value not only for yourself, but for all those you touch around you.

The environment is important in that like many other topics our mismanagement is passed to future generations to resolve. The whole “H.R. 2454 American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” is a welfare program for the government organizations. The core problem is that any burning fuel causes the production of carbon dioxide. The Earth has a natural method to deal with carbon dioxide called photosynthesis, but we allow forests to be replaced by parking lots. If the EPA, DOE and DOT which have existed for decades have not been able to develop equally price energies options then another influx in revenue has no guarantees that solutions will be discovered.

The government could be driving those changes, but the problem is those discoveries are not measurable in political based timetables. You couldn’t pick the time frame for Edison to discover tungsten worked in the light bulb. So perhaps regulating Edison material options could have reduced his time to market?

However placing a tax burden on the backs of the business and the people is simply not the correct approach. Because the taxation control is removed multiple times from the actual consumer, exactly how does a business or household manage their own consumption? This is a pass the buck strategy which will force businesses even to greater a degree to utilize off shore manufacturing resources and reducing the number of job in America into regions with zero power production regulations. Some Power companies will maintain near existing pricing while others will absorb huge pricing increase destroy regional businesses. Taxation without direct user control is taxation WITHOUT representation in my eyes.

Thanks for you efforts. I am trying to do mine and the legislative branch will soon realize we are here and watching.