{"id":962,"date":"2010-04-07T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2010-04-07T14:34:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T19:34:11","slug":"apple-lobbys-for-cap-and-trade-avoids-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Apple Lobbys for Cap-and-Trade, Avoids Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/Sorry-your-Chinese-made-iPad-wont-save-the-planet-90089372.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So if Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lobbying effort is successful, American companies will  pay for their carbon emissions, but no such carbon costs will fall on  Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, which made your iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Under cap-and-trade, Apple company would pay for the 400,000 tons of  carbon dioxide emitted annually by its U.S. buildings and domestic  operations, and also for the 500,000 tons of carbon dioxide emitted by  shipping its products. But the 3.8 million tons of CO2 emitted by its  manufacturing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 81 percent of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s total \u00e2\u20ac\u201d would be exempt from  a carbon tax because the emissions would be in China.<\/p>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\">\nRead more at the Washington Examiner:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/Sorry-your-Chinese-made-iPad-wont-save-the-planet-90089372.html#ixzz0kRbimDCS\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/Sorry-your-Chinese-made-iPad-wont-save-the-planet-90089372.html#ixzz0kRbimDCS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Washington Examiner So if Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lobbying effort is successful, American companies will pay for their carbon emissions, but no such carbon costs will fall on Hon Hai Precision Industry Company, which made your iPad. Under cap-and-trade, Apple company would pay for the 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide emitted annually by its U.S. buildings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,9,8],"tags":[53,52,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}