A Senate committee on the Environment and Public Works is considering legislation designed to combat global warming. This legislation will put in place a system of caps and credits, similar to what countries in Europe enacted in the wake of adopting the Kyoto protocol, as a mechanism for industries to reduce green-house gas emissions. (The language in the legislation uses "market-driven system" to, we suppose, draw our type in.)

We see, however, a system of caps and indulgences that similar to what ultimately happened in Europe as a bureaucracy subject to graft and corruption and which here stateside, provides cover for Al Gore to continue to live the good life while he's spreading his Gospel.

Awww, who are we kidding? We only posted this as an excuse to get in some great "environmental" shots of Monument Valley and Zion National Park from our roadie in September.