The Heritage Foundation posted this summary of the top ten points regarding cap and trade.
Cap and Trade Top Ten List
1. Cap and Trade Is a Massive Energy Tax
2. It Will Not Make A Substantive Impact on the Environment
3. It WillKill Jobs
4. It Will Cause Electricity Bills and Gas Prices to Sharply Increase
5. It Will Outsource Manufacturing Jobs and Hurt Free Trade
6. It Will Make You Choose Between Energy, Groceries, Clothing or Haircuts.
7. It Will Be Highly Susceptible to Fraud and Corruption
8. It Will Hurt Senior Citizens, the Poor, and the Unemployed the Worst
9. It Will Cost American Families Over $3,000 a Year
10. President Obama Admitted “Electricity Rates Would Necessarily Skyrocket” under a cap-and-trade program. (January 2008)
I can help with number 4: the energy price increases for consumers are right here, courtesy of Michele Bachmann.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Mar 23, 2015 @ 09:36:34
sounds like the garbage people said ( such as Davidson) said about the ETS in Australia and it proved FALSE!
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Mar 23, 2015 @ 09:37:54
What happened to Australian ETS?
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Mar 23, 2015 @ 10:40:37
Whether you like it or not it did not have the impact its critics were claiming. People like Davidson were making claims its impact would have a larger impact than the GST although they did not know that at the time!
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