I don't know enough about Cap and Trade to comment on that aspect, although I must say that while I understand and understand the economic hardships that we will face by going green, failure to gain an edge on renewable energy sources will equally collapse our nation, especially if we wait till there's not a drop of oil left before we fully invest in green energies. If we wait till we have no other choice, I assure you we most certainly WILL face severe economic hardships, greater than what we might face if we change our attitudes now. We cannot merely procrastinate on switching and investing of clean energies on the basis that 'we will go bankrupt if we do.' It will only cost us more, the longer we wait. The problem it seems is motivation, a lack of demand for green energy, as it is still cheaper to utilize fossil fuels. Until all the oil is gone it will always be cheaper, ergo we must make it more expensive not to use renewable energy sources. And I for one would really like to see America become as independent on other economies and resources as soon as possible. Without getting off topic too much, I think we need to look for incentives to focus more on renewable energy sources, as well as finding more incentives to bring jobs and industry back to America. As it is, I wish President Obama would raise import tariffs to much higher levels, while lowering export tariffs as well. Make it more cost beneficial to higher American workers. I am truly sick of all the outsourcing and how easy it is. I know a local business owner whose net earnings for his company are only near a million (before paying some 20 workers, taxes, etc) and he has switched to outsourcing in the last 10 years due to the ease and cost effectiveness. He ended up firing 15 good Americans to hire 20 Chinese workers for much less. I say regulate the hell out of businesses until we can bring work back to America. Free market solutions are a joke, and always will be as long as it is cheaper to higher some dirty little commie in China to do work for less than what it'd cost to pay an American. Free market traitors is more like it. Sorry for the rant. But as I said, we need more pragmatic federal regulations that promote small businesses and encourage them to hire Americans, not so-called free market solutions that are driven by the greed to turn the highest profit at the lowest cost for the company, which often involves cheap outsourcing at the expense of the dollar. From Hell