"dpb" wrote in message ...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"dpb" wrote in message ...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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Pollution credits: A company prefers to change nothing about their
facilities. For a cost that's less than making the needed changes, they
buy the right to do nothing.

What do you think would make a politician agree to vote for a law which
allows this? Be the lobbyist for a utility in Ohio, whose plant is
"emitting more smog-causing nitrogen oxides than all of the dozen or so
coal-burning plants in New York state, Federal emissions records show."
...

On the other hand, the company that sold the credits had them to sell.
And, eventually, they expire and there aren't an unlimited number of
them.

Overall, it again boils down to a compromising action that was able to
be enacted that provides both sides a little of what they wanted. Ugly
maybe, but that's essentially the way all legislation gets enacted.

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Citizens downwind of the filthy plant don't give a **** what the
utility's shareholders want. Pollution credits are a crime.

Well, those that are also shareholders might as noted previously. And, no
they're not a crime, they're part of established law. Now if you want the
law changed, get busy...

Now, answer the question: How do you, as a lobbyist get your elected
slobs to vote for a law that allows your corporate sponsor to buy their
way out of being responsible?

Same way you get yours to do your bidding...

How naiive.