Stop the shenanigans - The Reporter

It is important for all of us to understand the implications of the "cap and trade" legislation since it will increase the cost of just about everything at a time when we can't afford anything. The idea is an attempt to limit carbon dioxide emissions and is misguided, not only because it is based on faulty science, but because it assumes that all countries would actually participate and will devastate our economy by driving more jobs overseas.
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These "profits" are nothing more than a hidden tax on consumers and a way to create an additional revenue stream for our insatiable government. It is not the result of actually producing or accomplishing anything, but merely another way for politicians to get their hand in your pocket.

There is talk of the money being "recycled" back into the economy to ensure consumers are not unduly burdened, but we can be assured that we will be paying more for not only energy and gas, but for anything manufactured by American companies that are burdened with higher energy costs. It is time for all of us to say enough of these environmental shenanigans and the dishonesty of a government that is costing American jobs. I urge everyone to contact their legislators now, before it is too late.

Mike Herguth
Fairfield

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There is a lot of talk about wind and solar power as alternatives to fossil fuels. I like what Keith O. Rattie, CEO of Questar Corporation, said in discussing wind and solar power as alternative energy sources, "A more honest description would be 'supplements.' Taken together, wind and solar power today account for just one-sixth of 1 percent of America's annual energy consumption per day."

President Barack Obama plans to double that in the next decade and spending hundred of millions in taxpayer dollars to do it ... and accomplish what?

Rattie said it better than I, in the closing of his speech at Utah Valley University three weeks ago: "Let me close by returning to the lessons my generation learned from the 1970s energy crisis (the oil embargo). We learned that energy choices favored by politicians but not confirmed by markets are destined to fail."
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Don G. Briggs is president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association.

PoliGazette » Yesterday’s Climate Change Hearings: Politicizing Science

Gore is not a scientist, nor an expert. He is a politician who made millions by scaring the crap out of people. He knows very well that quite some of the statements he made in recent years and data he used are incorrect. Monckton could probably have destroyed Gore in a couple of minutes yesterday.