Opinion: OPINION: True costs of warming hype | global, warming, temperatures : Gazette.com

...we are likely to find the real damage is caused not by global warming, but by the fight against global warming.

June '08: United States Senator Saxby Chambliss [Georgia] on climate change legislation

This will be devastating to families across the country.

According to Housing and Urban Development, poor families spend almost five times as much of their monthly budget in meeting their energy needs -- 19 percent -- as wealthier Americans, who spend approximately 4 percent.

Increases in energy prices due to carbon limits would hit the poor five times harder, which certainly will be unsustainable. This bill, by some estimates, will hit the average Georgia household in an amount equal to $7,231.

The effects this legislation will have on consumers are outrageous: higher gasoline prices, higher electricity prices, lower household incomes, and job losses.

CQ Politics | Poll Tracker - Eye on the Senate: Chambliss Ahead in Georgia

First-term Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss holds a 52 percent to 46 percent lead over Democratic challenger James Martin), a former state representative, in their Dec. 2 runoff battle, according to a Research 2000 survey conducted Nov. 23-25. Two percent are undecided and the margin of error is 4 points.
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Georgia and Minnesota, where a recount is going on, are the last two chances Democrats have to reach the magic number of 60 in the Senate, which is enough votes to break a filibuster.