How people you didn't elect control everything you do

This is just one. The Western Climate Initiative. There are many out there--mostly under the umbrella of global warming, which now includes health, safety, education, social engineering, and got its fair share of pork in the new bailout.

The Western Climate Initiative would establish a regional market to trade carbon emissions credits, allowing industries that emit greenhouse gases to buy and sell credits for their emissions. The goal is to cut the region's carbon emissions to below 2005 levels by 2020, a roughly 15 percent reduction. [I read 25% by 2020.]

The initiative, proposed Tuesday by seven western states and four Canadian provinces, covers more polluters than other regional plans adopted in the United States, Canada and Europe. [Yahoo News, AP story.] I would have copied from the WCI document, but couldn't--it's more scary in the "real" language.

I think I see hundreds of these a week--architects, engineers and the building trades are wetting themselves, they are so eager to build green, and by that I don't mean environmental--I mean $$$$. If you see a really ugly building that looks like a box of blocks attached with velcro and tin foil, betcha it's "green."

Cap and trade covers electricity, natural gas and heating fuels emissions as well as industrial emissions and transportation emissions. In short, just about everything that makes our world pleasant and easy and comfortable for us. It doesn't cover hot air by politicians and Al Gore.