Thomas Carper
The Public Record
Our President was a guy named George Herbert Walker Bush, and as I recall, he proposed harnessing market forces to try to address the problems that we had with acid rain destroying forests and water and lakes and so forth in New England.
Parts of my State are going to be underwater. Not just my State, but States along the East Coast from Maine to Florida.
The legislation to provide transportation which would reduce greenhouse gases is enormously important, and there is no better time to focus on a matter of this importance than on this legislation.
I think engaging the community in a thoughtful way that looks at the values they want... makes a very large difference.
I am impressed that two very different States, Utah and Oregon, and I have been privileged to visit them both, but two very different States are at the forefront of efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector.
The development patterns that we have experienced in this country over the last 30 to 40 years are not the product of a market or invisible hand.
the cap-and-trade program should continue to use the reasonable free allocation of allowances





