“I do believe this nation has been portrayed for too long a time to the people as being energy poor, when it is energy rich.” Ronald Reagan

Reagan’s mission as President was to rein in a government he considered an obstacle to economic opportunity and human liberty. He complained the federal government had over-spent, over-estimated and over-regulated.

Supporting Gore, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid; Perriello voted in 2009 in favor of “Cap & Trade” or better known as “Cap & Tax”, the largest middle class energy tax increase in American History!

It  appears now that the Senate is gearing up to pass a ‘Cap & Trade’ travesty, forcing American Businesses to purchase carbon credits at a price now under negotiations, but orginially estimated to be as much as $100 billion. This price will be passed on to YOU, the consumer, in higher utilitiy bills, gasoline prices, services and everything manufactured or transported to include FOOD. Please visit the American Thinker and read the effects of this outrageous bill will have on you and your family.

Since the BP oil disaster, Obama has refused help from other countries to help clean up and possibly stop the oil flow. The President says he’s trying to take political control of this crisis and that’s seems to be exactly what’s he has done…in his political bureacratic gobbledygook that is. He’s using the oil spill to futher his radical agenda to pass Cap & Trade, just as he’s using the drug trafficing, (by doing nothing) along the borders to pass his immigration bill.  BP has said time and time again they will pay for all clean-up and make full restitution for damages. But in the Obama fashion: ‘never let a crisis go to waste’, they  want to seize the opportunity to take CONTROL. Obama wants the money BP would pay in damages put in escrow. (Control is what Obama’s all about.) Can you imagine all the red tape this administration will put those who lost their jobs and businesses through?  And let’s not forget the blood sucking vampires (AKA – the IRS) that want to make everyone pay taxes on the money they would receive. When all is said and done, those harmed by the oil spill will be lucky to get a dime. This is a good example of that ‘Hope & Change’.  Obama’s hoping he gets the money and you get the change.

The technology already exist to clean the oil spill, so why isn’t it being used?

Under the Obama administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a policy to curtail surface mining in a six-state region, by reducing the practice of filling valleys with excess waste. In March , the EPA proposed to block a ‘mountaintop’ coal mine in West VA  regardless of the company’s federal permit. West VA is a democrat state so what will happen now with the passing of Robert Byrd? Will another democrat take his seat who is 100% for Obama’s solicalistic agenda or 100% for the people who rely on their mining jobs to support their state and families.

“When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know, under my plan of a Cap & Trade System, electricity rates would not necessarily skyrocket.” Barack Obama.

Coal, a fossil fuel, is the largest source of energy for the generation of electricity worldwide. We use coal-generated electricity for numerous things including: heating, cooling, cooking, transportation, farming, and industry. Coal is a versatile fuel, can be used as a solid fuel and can be converted to a gas to replace expensive imported fuels. In terms of supply, the U.S. has over 300 billion tons of recoverable coal. That’s enough to last for 300 years. At this time, coal provides 45.2% of Virginia’s power, 97.8% of West VA’s, 93.1% in Kentucky, 85.8% in Ohio, 94% in Indania and 94.5% in Wyoming.

In the U.S., 23 out of 25 electric power plants generated by coal have lower operating cost than those producing electricity from natural gas. This means lower costs to homeowners and businesses.

In 2008 Obama said, “What I’ve said is that we would put a Cap & Trade System in place that is more – that is aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody else’s out there…so if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s been emitted.”

While speaking to a voter in Ohio, Joe (foot-in-mouth) Biden said firmly, “we’re not supporting clean coal.”

The West VA’s  Coal Association’s president and others in the coal industry say they’ve received mixed messages about Obama’s coal-fired power because both Obama and Biden have stated they would support finding cleaner ways to burn coal. Let me clear that up for you…… 

Obama has said he wants to bankrupt the coal industry and it has been reported that no new coal mining permits have been issued since he took office. His plans for coal mining would place tens of thousands out of work. In Pennsylvania there are 264 mines, 282 mines in West VA, Kentucky has 417 and Virginia with 118. That’s a lot of jobs! Obama must feel  it’s okay to add a few extra thousand to the unemployment lines as long as his socialistic agenda gets passed.

I’ll be the first to say Obama has a team of writers who know how to manipulate and sugar coat the facts, But the truth is, if you take a cow pattie and sugar coat it, in the end…. it’s still dung.

For even more information on the Cap & Trade Tax system please go here .

Plus this area enjoys some of the lowest costs for electricity in the country because of the amount of power produced by coal.

Carbon-reduction legislation approved by the House of Representatives in late June and ready for consideration by the Senate could sharply erode the earnings of coal-fired power generating plants and, by extension, the railroads that deliver their fuel.

A Standard & Poor’s report suggested that H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (“ACES”), also known as cap and trade, could cut utility earnings by 20%. Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif., top), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of a key subcommittee, co-sponsored the bill.
 
S&P analysts said the House bill could cause the share of power produced from coal to drop to 33% from 50%. The bill aims to cut fossil fuel emissions from power plants and other users 17% below 2005 levels by 2020.

The report said the bill could also cause coal users to switch to natural gas, pushing up its price.

The importance of coal for rail profitability is indicated by the fact that coal accounts for more than 40% of rail traffic and around 20% of revenues.
 
Economists say that a reduction in the earnings of either utilities or railroads could have ripple effects on their customers, including cuts in capital investment that would affect service and capacity.

The vote for the bill will be delayed until later in September, this is a good thing so we will have a little more time to let our senators know about the problems (namely taxes and increased costs) in the bill.

First here are the contact pages for Mark Warner and Jim Webb

Warner

Webb

Here is a very brief overview of the Bill

The supposed purpose of this bill is to limit or reverse global warming.
This bill would say CO2 along with 4 or 5 others gases are going to be classified as green house gases which means they will come under control and regulation of the EPA.

The bill is supposed to limit man-made greenhouse gases by instituting a declining cap on allowable emissions. This would mean that electricity producers, petroleum refiners, and natural gas distributors would have to obtain permits called “Allowances” from the Federal Government for every ton of CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions they produce.

Each year the government will issue fewer allowances, this will FORCE the price of the allowances to go up as the demand for fewer and fewer allowances issued goes up. The cost of the allowance is a TAX.
As with any TAX on business it WILL be passed on to the consumer in the form of higher costs for things like electricity and gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, etc. The total value of the these allowances will be in the BILLIONS of dollars and by 2035 will have a total aggregate value (READ TAX) of $5.7 TRILLION DOLLARS. This will make this bill one of the largest new taxes in history, if not the largest!

Just to give a little background, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is something that every living animal or human expels every time we collectively breathe… don’t sigh to deep or too long you will be contributing to global warming…

The 2 biggest producers of CO2 are:
1. The Oceans they produce about 57% of all CO2 and
2. Normal breathing of all living species, including humans. This accounts for about 38% of all CO2 production. The only way I know to effect #2 is for a lot of people and animals to stop breathing. Sorry I’m being a smart aleck again. But I also guess we could plant more trees or plants.

Al Gore is running all over the world talking about global warming with a doomsday approach. But the impact we can make as far as CO2 production is very, very small.

Over 700 international scientists have said that the science being used warn of the impending doom is flawed or incorrect in its assumptions and consequentially the results. These 700 scientists have said that the cap and trade will have NO IMPACT on the earth’s global warming. Some of these scientists can actually PROVE that the Earth is cooling down and will continue to do so for the next 20 to 30 years.

The Sun has more impact on the earth’s cooling and warming cycles than humans do by way of sunspot activity.

While the Cap and Trade was being written, an EPA scientist wrote a paper saying that any regulation of CO2 would have no impact on Global Warming. That paper was suppressed by high ranking officials in the EPA because “The direction of the debate on Global Warming had been decided”.

What does all this mean for us? Well since you asked……..

BY 2035

(all these figures are from the Heritage Fountain)

All this for something that is based on flawed science and will yield very little to no positive impact on our environment. Hhhhmmmmmmmmm………. Remember don’t sigh be long.

Please write our Senators using the facts, and tell them we cannot stand ANOTHER TAX that will yield no benefit!!!

AUGUST 20th   AMERICAN’S FOR PROSPERITY HOT AIR BALLOON EVENT

Save the Date: August 20th
AFP’s Hot Air Balloon to Stop in Bluefield and Roanoke
Right now in Washington, President Obama and Speaker Pelosi are pushing a Cap and Trade scheme that raises taxes on your gasoline, raise taxes on your home heating and cooling and kills jobs by the thousands with government rationing of our energy — all in the name of Al Gore’s Global Warming alarmism.
Register for the Bluefield and Roanoke stop of Americans for Prosperity’s Hot Air Tour
Thursday, August 20th

You can fight back — just like we did with Tea Parties.   Bring your family out to Americans for Prosperity’s Hot Air Tour Thursday, August 20th in Bluefield or Roanoke as we urge Senators Warner and Webb to VOTE NO to the current Cap and Trade Scheme. We’ll have free food and free rides on a giant 70-foot-tall hot Air balloon (weather permitting).
Bluefield, VA
9:00am — Thursday, August 20th
Location: TBD
Click Here to Register
Take Action

Send Senators Warner and Webb a message – tell them to sign the NO Climate Tax Pledge!

Roanoke, VA
5:30pm — Thursday, August 20th
Location: TBD
Go to: http://www.capwiz.com/americansforprosperity and register for the event.

*Free “The Truth is Cool” t-shirts for the first 50 in attendance at each stop.
Please share this event by forwarding this e-mail to family, friends, coworkers, home school group, political group, and other community associations!
Note: Hot air balloon rides are weather and wind permitting.
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