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Answer No, most plans to cut emissions are pointless and expensive. With standards like the Kyoto treaty, gas prices could go up 30-50%. Energy costs could go up 80%. To replace a standard coal plant, a wind farm would take up 400 square miles and need over 2,000 turbines. Kyoto would cost the US between 100 and 400 billion per year. That would give us the impossible task of cutting emissions 40% by the year 2012. It would cost 1,375,000 jobs held by minority workers and cut the job market by 15%. So plans like Kyoto would hurt a lot more than they could possibly help.

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