Link to Inhofe EPW Press Blog
An important reason cap-and-trade supporters repeatedly fail to "put a price on carbon" is that they choose to see reality as they want to see it, rather than seeing it as it actually is. One of the stubborn realities confronting them is the Midwest. No matter how cap-and-trade legislation is structured, altered, or amended, the result is always the same: the Midwest shoulders a larger share of the higher electricity costs, lost jobs, and slower economic growth that cap-and-trade will inevitably cause. Why?