To the Herald Times editor:
Your May 5 editorial correctly states that Americans still don’t know how much more they will pay for electricity if Congress succeeds in passing a cap-and-trade tax.
This is not because these costs cannot be accurately estimated, but rather, because any objective analysis will show that Americans will see substantial increases in their utility costs. So it is not surprising that cap-and-trade boosters prefer not to discuss such pesky details.
Instead, they run full-page ads that misleadingly predict an abundance of new green jobs.
The White House concedes that cap-and-trade could net nearly $2 trillion for the federal government in the first eight years through 2020. Assuming 120 million American households, that works out to a cost of roughly $2,000 a year per American family.
My guess is that it will actually cost even more. In Germany, where the government is subsidizing thousands of giant windmills all over the countryside, electric bills are soaring and consumers are now angry. The average increase was 38 percent in 2007.
The irony is that while Germany now gets more than 15 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, it also has the dubious distinction of having the highest electric bills in all Europe.
Todd Young, an attorney at the southern Indiana law firm of Tucker and Tucker, P.C., was born August 24, 1972, a fifth generation Hoosier and the second of three children of Bruce and Nancy Young. Young lived in Marion County for several years before settling in Hamilton County, where he...
Excessive use of electricity
This is true that people of the United State of America and European countries are using electricity far more than the third countries people. The maximum usage of home electricity appliances such as refrigerator, air condition, Aprilaire Humidifier and so on are giving contribution generating Carbon-dioxide. On the other hand rapidly growing industrialization these all resulted in consequence of global warming.
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