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“Even advocates of cap-and-trade admit the purpose of the plan is to raise the cost of energy,” AEA president Thomas J. Pyle said in an e-mail message to media outlets in eastern North Carolina. “That fact is not in dispute. The real fight in Washington is over how high those costs will go, and what, exactly, we can expect to get from engaging in the unilateral disarmament of our energy and economic future.”

Pyle called the ad campaign “an attempt to expand the reach of this debate to a much wider audience than has previously been included thus far — along the way providing some facts, figures and sunlight we hope will better inform the discussion moving ahead.”

Congress has to act on global warming and energy independence, [U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C] told The Daily Advance this week.

“This debate is not about cap and trade,” Butterfield said. “The debate is about climate change and global warming. There’s near-unanimous agreement that the planet is warming and that the climate is changing and that we need to take federal action to correct that.