{"id":867,"date":"2009-03-16T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/truthsquad\/2009\/03\/16\/code-for-killing-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:31:27","slug":"code-for-killing-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/03\/16\/code-for-killing-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Code for Killing Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claim<\/h3>\n

“‘Cap-and-trade’ is code for increasing taxes, killing American jobs and raising energy costs for consumers.”<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Rep. John Boehner<\/strong> (R-OH), House Minority Leader,\u00a0March 9, 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Truth<\/h3>\n

Opponents of global warming action certainly have their sound bites down.<\/p>\n

For style and efficiency, Rep. Boehner gets an A (in 17 words, he certainly makes his point). For truth-telling, he gets a big fat F.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

As we’ve posted before, cap-and-trade is not a tax. It was designed explicitly to not be a tax —\u00a0but rather a market-based policy that limits\u00a0global warming pollution and\u00a0creates economic incentives for businesses to meet or exceed those limits.<\/p>\n

If\u00a0cap-and-trade is “code” for anything, it’s\u00a0unleashing green energy innovation and growing our economy.<\/p>\n

On the jobs issue, evidence\u00a0shows that capping America’s global warming pollution can be a big job creator, as we point out in our Less Carbon, More Jobs report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A cap encourages innovation and puts people to work finding the energy solutions we’ll need in a carbon constrained world. From the laboratories of innovation to the markets of entrepreneurship to the factories of manufacturing, a cap on carbon will be the starting gun to unleash a new green energy revolution (see Why a Cap on Carbon?<\/a> for more details).<\/p>\n

As for\u00a0raising energy costs,\u00a0that’s not necessarily so. As we’ve pointed out in our response to FreedomWorks’ Bogus 10 claims about climate action<\/a>, an analysis of the Lieberman-Warner S. 2191 legislation by the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Agency (EIA) projects electricity prices in the year 2020 to be 3% higher than business-as-usual. But the EIA analysis also expects electricity consumption to be almost 4% lower than it would otherwise be.<\/p>\n

The net effect is a projected decrease<\/em><\/strong> of 0.7%- about $0.7-in monthly electricity bills in that year.<\/p>\n

Rep. Boehner’s sound bite is an efficiently delivered line. He gets high marks for style, but\u00a0gets it all wrong on substance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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