Former Congressman Bob Inglis, who lost his primary race 71-29, on the alleged effects of trace amounts of CO2: We're paying in the forms of increased medical bills, lost workplace productivity and thousands of people who die earlier than they otherwise would

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"What we've been doing is sort of assuming that we don't have a very good answer, and the other team has an answer and so therefore let's just decide not to compete," Inglis said. "What I would submit, though, is actually conservatives really are the indispensible partners in this, the ones that must come forward with a solution."
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We're already paying a great deal for the costs of carbon emissions, Inglis said. We're paying in the forms of increased medical bills, lost workplace productivity and thousands of people who die earlier than they otherwise would.

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Inglis, who boasts (literally) a 93 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, received the wrath of the tea party, losing to Gowdy 71 to 29 percent.