Can Cap and Trade Agreements Force Efficiency?

The end result of cap and trade will be to shut down many good businesses that are operating as efficiently as possible considering the industry they are in and the pricing realities they face.

The production will transfer to plants located in less regulated places like India and China where they will create more emmissions and pollution than there ever was before.

Great idea! Or at least the Chinese and Indians think it is.

Cap and trade will have little if any affect of future global warming ( which is now called "climate change" in case the planet cools off). Any amount of savings ( if any due to efficiency ) would be used up by the government overhead needed to run and control the program. (And where does the money go. As always follow the money.)

You want things to improve? We should reward people, and not punish them. A carrot is better than a stick. Let people be free and much mone can be done, confine them and time stands still. If people can save money, while not loosing too much in return they will have the freedom to choose the best system. Let the market decide, not goverment ( think lines at the Post office or DMV ). People can find/make more efficient methods and be rewarded when they take it to market.