Apparently a Less-Warm Planet Requires Loads of Pork, Red Tape, and Union Favoritism

Apparently a Less-Warm Planet Requires Loads of Pork, Red Tape, and Union Favoritism:

An Associated Press story last week related 'good news' about expected heating costs this winter: namely, it will cost people less to heat their homes this year, according to the Energy Information Administration. To read the story, one would think that the government considers that to be good news, too.

Under a cap-and-trade regime, however, this same news would be considered calamitous. By the government, that is – consumers would, of course, remain consistent in their opinion that higher energy costs are bad news and lower costs, good. Making energy more expensive is what the whole cap-and-trade scheme depends on."