Way back on December 17, 2010, I wrote in praise of a ten-state effort to control greenhouse gasses. The pact, known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, is a cap-and-trade effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Most of the money raised by the program is used for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs. The program has been working.
Now Gov. Christie is taking New Jersey out of the program. He was quoted as saying RGGI has "...no discernible effect on our environment." Tim Pawlenty, who at one time supported a cap-and-trade initiative, has said he made a mistake and repudiated his past stance. Republicans are so myopic on global warming and so angry at any attempt to curtail the pollution that is helping to cause it that their presidential candidates must deny there is even a problem.
Gov. Christie has said he is not a presidential candidate. Maybe not officially, but he is.
Note to my readers: I try to post every day, but last night we had a wind storm that knocked out power for about eight hours and cable for over twelve hours. After what happened in Tuscaloosa and Joplin, however, a short time without cable or electricity seems very minor indeed.
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