I for one, am getting tired of seeing and hearing the anti-coal commercials in the media. Al Gore and his ilk are spending $100 million to spread their agenda around. It seems that they truly want to get rid of coal-fired electric generation plants. With the power plants providing more than 50 percent of electric power in the U.S., I wonder where they think this affordable power is going to come from. Not to leave out all the employment the industry provides. I think the electric generation plant owners have made real progress and spent many millions of dollars to scrub the emissions.

However, the Al Gore agenda goes way further. There is big money to be made in "carbon," and they are laying the tracks for another train wreck for the populace of the world. They will make big money until this happens. Some of the catch words and phrases that some have heard, some have not, are, global warming, climate change, carbon footprint, carbon tax, carbon emission trading, green chemistry, carbon credits, emission reduction units, millennium reduction goals, cap and trade, cap and share and carbon offsets. Any of these can be easily looked up for clearer definition.

The trading of carbon credits is already happening. This, IMHO, is about the same as the scam the Wall Street and banking crooks have pulled on us with the "credit derivatives," "equity default swaps," and "equity default put." With the SEC looking the other way, of course.

According to Wikipedia, the European Union Emission Trading System Scheme has been going on for some years. In 2005, the UK Emissions Trading Scheme traded 362 million tons of carbon credits for a sum on 7.2 billion Euros, and a large number of futures.

This all goes way deeper and is more involved, and we are all being slowly ensnared in this scheme. If they get their way, we will all pay and get back virtually nothing. Power, greed and money gets its way over all of us. We are living through this right now with the housing/banking/Wall Street debacle, the national elections, government bailouts of all kinds and the Fed out of control.

I wish I could figure out an easy way to make money like that, maybe like selling somebody one of the billions of stars out there to put your name on. Oops, someone is already doing that.