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Bob Corker: “Isn't it counterproductive to give away free allowances to the utility sector, in that what you're doing is causing that…”

On the recordOctober 13, 2009
Isn't it counterproductive to give away free allowances to the utility sector, in that what you're doing is causing that pricing mechanism that is there to reduce consumption not to be, if you will, 'learned,' if you will, by the consumers?
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Bob Corker
Republican · Tennessee

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Corker questions the effectiveness of free allowances in cap-and-trade.

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