If This Ice Melts In

I'm Sure That In The Fullness Of Time We'll Learn That One Or More Of These Seemingly Promising Technologies Were Dead Ends. And That's The Nature Of Innovation, And That's Why We Should Spread Our Bets; We Should Not Put Our Eggs In Any One Basket. Some Of These Will Be Grand Successes, Some Of Them Will Be Average, And Some Of Them Will Be Abject Failures.

Air Is One We Hold In Common; It Has A Limited Carrying Capacity For Pollutants And That's Being Used Up By Those Who Pollute The Atmosphere. So We Have To Stop That Externality. We Would Never Allow A Utility To Put Their Coal Slag In A Dump Truck And Back It Up To The City Park And Dump It In Unlimited Amounts For Free. But That Is Exactly What We Do With Carbon Dioxide And Methane.

We Allow It To Be Dumped Into This Community Asset, Which Is Our One And Only Atmosphere. So That Has To Change, And There's Really Only One Entity That Can Do That. So We Have Proposed A Cap-and-trade System To Stop That Unlimited Pollution, To Use The Forces Of The Market To Efficiently Allocate Scarce Permits To Allow Co2 Into The Atmosphere. That's Just One Of 500 Things We Need To Do, But It's Probably The Granddaddy Of Them All.

I Am Excited About Focusing Full-time On Talking About My Job-creation Agenda And Building A New Economy For Washington State. We Have A Great Chance To Seize Our Own Destiny, Build Our Own Industries, And Create Our Own Technological Revolutions Right Here At Home.

But Most Importantly, We Can All Be Donors. It Does Not Matter How Old You Are, Your Race, Where You Live; All Of Us Can Give The Gift Of Life.