Power Companies Endorse Carbon Limits
For the latest sign of the apocalypse, a consortium of power companies is actually calling for curbs on carbon emission absent any federal regulatory requirement to do so. Can our government really be that so retarded in addressing CO2 emissions that even the power companies think it’s gone too far? Not entirely. As reported in this article in the New York Times, the likely explanation is that they are trying to head off even more stringent requirements that might be in the offing after the 2008 elections. Said Peter Darbee, Chief Executive and PG&E in California, “a future political climate, after 2008, might produce solutions less sensitive to the needs of business.” The proposed carbon emission limit would see emissions drop below current levels in ten years. It’s a start. Let’s see if the government has the ability to act on this issue in a timely way.