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Sorry, saw you third response after I posted my second one. I was wondering about your anti-economic development argument. Some believe that our environmental regulations are such while others believe it just fairly apportions external costs. If you support the environmental laws (and their associated costs)that led to the improvement in our nations environment,why would it be any different for CO2. We presently spend large sums of money reducing S02, VOCs, Pb, CO, NOx and Particulates in our air, and a host of other pollutants in our water. Presently, the environmental community may be struggling to figure out how to control CO2, to what level, at what cost and how to deal with issues like China and India but on principal we are talking about regulating another pollutant. We regulated an enourmous number of activities over the last 40 years or so, and it hasn't stopped economic development.
