Posted: 6/25/2009 6:05:49 AM EDT
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An email I got from the "Friends of Liberty" (I also got one from the Birchers and the Conservative so and so)
But seriously...Let everyone know what this Cap and Trade Energy BS really means. Around 3k more of taxes for the average family a year! June 24, 2009 Dear Friend of Liberty, Congress is trying to skyrocket your cost of living while putting another 1 million-plus Americans out of work. And they want to do it before the week is out. You see, the “Cap-and-Trade” bill currently in the House is really nothing more than a thinly disguised energy tax that will hit every single American. And now Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Democrats are pushing this tax hike toward a vote that could come as soon as Friday. That’s why we need to act now. I have included the office number for your Representative, Jim Cooper, but first I want you to understand the disastrous consequences of this Cap-and-Tax Scheme. By invasively manipulating an already over-regulated energy industry, this legislation seeks to fix an alleged problem that has recently been discredited by over 31,478 scientists –– including over 3,803 with specific expertise in atmospheric, earth, and environmental sciences. All 31,478 of these scientists are trained to understand and evaluate the scientific data relevant to the human-caused global warming hypothesis –– and are speaking out against government “remedies.” With this bill, Congress is once again just doing what it does best –– fleecing taxpayers to further an alarmist agenda. You see, energy companies just pass the costs of these draconian regulations through to the consumer in the form of huge price increases. As a result, you will pay higher gas prices, higher electric prices, and higher costs for goods. Barack Obama has estimated the costs of this legislation to American taxpayers to be over 650 BILLION dollars over the next eight years, and that figure is no doubt just a fraction of the real cost. But even that modest estimate amounts to hundreds of dollars a year in increased living expenses for every family –– and will more likely cost thousands a year. And according to the Heritage Foundation, between 1.2 and 2.3 million jobs could be lost over the next ten-years due to the bill’s stifling regulations. This current economic crisis is no time for Congress to consider both raising prices on hard-working Americans AND costing them jobs. That’s why we must act now to send a message to Congress to reject this disastrous Cap-and-Tax Scheme. The office number for Representative Jim Cooper is (202) 225-4311. Call now and ask for the staff member that deals with Energy policy. Politely but firmly tell them that you are opposed to this costly government power grab. Supporters of the legislation are of course trying to downplay the cost of this scheme to the American people. But if the bill does not directly and massively increase energy costs to consumers, how would it possibly achieve its stated aims? It is only through these massive cost increases –– mandated and enforced by the federal government –– that the dubious goal of reducing carbon emissions could possibly be reached. The only alternative to huge energy price increases would be massive, government-ordered power outages, leaving Americans literally in-the-dark like some war-torn Third World Country. So please call Rep. Jim Cooper at (202) 225-4311 and speak out in opposition to this hidden tax. You’ve shown what an impact grassroots action can make toward Auditing the Fed. Let’s unleash that same R3volution in opposition to this Big Government Cap-and-Tax Scheme. In Liberty, John Tate President P.S. Congress is trying to skyrocket your cost of living with hidden “taxes” from the Cap-and-Trade Bill. Call your Representative, Jim Cooper, at (202) 225-4311 and speak out in opposition of this hidden tax hike and expansion of Big Government. |
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http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=congressmerge&state=tn
I just got off the phone with Alexander and Corker's offices. Alexander opposes but Corker is on the fence. Had his phone person note that I am against. We should let them know how we feel. |
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From State Rep Susan Lynn
From: [email protected] Sent: Fri 6/26/09 9:10 AM To: [email protected] This article in today's Wall Street Journal is a great example of why it is important for us as legislators to not just "get on the bandwaggon" with an administration. Today, the US Congress will vote on legislation that will make all of us poorer and may only lower the global temperature by 5/10's of 1 degree over the next 100 years! I've emailed and called my US Rep. I hope you will too. Rep. Susan Lynn The Wall Street Journal JUNE 26, 2009 The Climate Change Climate Change The number of skeptics is swelling everywhere. · By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation. If you haven't heard of this politician, it's because he's a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country's carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming. Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S. In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country's new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country's weeks-old cap-and-trade program. The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. –– 13 times the number who authored the U.N.'s 2007 climate summary for policymakers. Joanne Simpson, the world's first woman to receive a Ph.D. in meteorology, expressed relief upon her retirement last year that she was finally free to speak "frankly" of her nonbelief. Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming "the worst scientific scandal in history." Norway's Ivar Giaever, Nobel Prize winner for physics, decries it as the "new religion." A group of 54 noted physicists, led by Princeton's Will Happer, is demanding the American Physical Society revise its position that the science is settled. (Both Nature and Science magazines have refused to run the physicists' open letter.) The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02. Peer-reviewed research has debunked doomsday scenarios about the polar ice caps, hurricanes, malaria, extinctions, rising oceans. A global financial crisis has politicians taking a harder look at the science that would require them to hamstring their economies to rein in carbon. Credit for Australia's own era of renewed enlightenment goes to Dr. Ian Plimer, a well-known Australian geologist. Earlier this year he published "Heaven and Earth," a damning critique of the "evidence" underpinning man-made global warming. The book is already in its fifth printing. So compelling is it that Paul Sheehan, a noted Australian columnist –– and ardent global warming believer –– in April humbly pronounced it "an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy, including my own, and a reminder to respect informed dissent and beware of ideology subverting evidence." Australian polls have shown a sharp uptick in public skepticism; the press is back to questioning scientific dogma; blogs are having a field day. The rise in skepticism also came as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, elected like Mr. Obama on promises to combat global warming, was attempting his own emissions-reduction scheme. His administration was forced to delay the implementation of the program until at least 2011, just to get the legislation through Australia's House. The Senate was not so easily swayed. Mr. Fielding, a crucial vote on the bill, was so alarmed by the renewed science debate that he made a fact-finding trip to the U.S., attending the Heartland Institute's annual conference for climate skeptics. He also visited with Joseph Aldy, Mr. Obama's special assistant on energy and the environment, where he challenged the Obama team to address his doubts. They apparently didn't. This week Mr. Fielding issued a statement: He would not be voting for the bill. He would not risk job losses on "unconvincing green science." The bill is set to founder as the Australian parliament breaks for the winter. Republicans in the U.S. have, in recent years, turned ever more to the cost arguments against climate legislation. That's made sense in light of the economic crisis. If Speaker Nancy Pelosi fails to push through her bill, it will be because rural and Blue Dog Democrats fret about the economic ramifications. Yet if the rest of the world is any indication, now might be the time for U.S. politicians to re-engage on the science. One thing for sure: They won't be alone. |
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I emailed Tennessee Senator Corker earlier this week. His response wasn't too commital ... Will likely require input from my fellow arfcomers:
Dear Mr. GXXXX, Thank you for taking the time to contact my office to share your concerns about Climate Change legislation. Your input is important to me, and I appreciate the time you took to share your thoughts. As you know, I did not support the climate change legislation considered in the Senate in the previous Congress. Instead of being about climate security, and instead of being about something that really drives us toward using technologies that would cause our country to be energy secure, this bill in fact ended up being about money. This bill would have doled out trillions of dollars to various industries and organizations and forced hard-working Americans to pay more for gasoline, more for electricity, more for food, and more for everything they buy. It is likely the Senate will return to climate change legislation this year, and I appreciate your concerns regarding a cap and trade or carbon tax bill. While climate legislation has not yet been introduced in the Senate, should such legislation come to the Senate floor, I assure you I will continue to remain an active participant in this debate, and the insight you've given here will certainly me and my staff prepare for future discussions on this issue. Thank you again for your letter. I hope you will continue to share your thoughts with me. Sincerely, Bob Corker United States Senator |