Cap and Trade COMMON SENSE

Public power districts and electric cooperatives are prepared to work with Congress to develop responsible climate change legislation.  We would like to urge congress to:

• Oppose auctioning allowances in the electricity sector
• Give allowances to retail electric utilities, based upon CO2 emissions associated with the production of electricity sold by the retail utility.
• Set CO2 caps consistent with the commercial availability of technology.
• Do not allow Wall Street speculators to set electricity rates by treating CO2 allowance as just another money-making commodity.

Gwen Kautz, Customer Service Manager
Dawson Public Power District