Apparently cap-and-trade does not make for good material. In the spirit of comedy, and since we were outside of a Bill Engvall show in Charleston, we tried to tell some cap-and-trade related jokes. We asked West Virginians whether a tax on 98% of their state’s energy was humorous; for some reason their funny bones weren’t tickled. I don’t know if it was my poor delivery or the prospect of spending more money for everything, but I couldn’t buy a laugh.

If you have a better cap-and-trade joke, leave it in the comments!