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Congress Daily reports that a few Republican Senators voted yesterday for a Kerry amendment that could open the door to a “cap and trade” system. As the Congressional Budget Office reports, such a system would harm our economy and cost Americans jobs. It would also mean higher prices for electricity and gasoline, lower wages, reduced stock values and even transfer wealth from the poor to the rich! The CBO notes, “Consumers would face higher prices for energy and for goods and services that require substantial amounts of energy to produce..”

Al Gore and his alarmist rhetoric have gotten to these 10 Republican Senators. They are: John Warner (VA), Arlen Specter (PA), Norm Coleman (MN), Pete Domenici (NM), Susan Collins (ME), Olympia Snowe (ME), Richard Lugar (IN), John Sununu (NH), Gordon Smith (OR), and Judd Gregg (NH). Each one of these senators should hear from their contituents that the Al Gore agenda is not the right agenda for our country.

Kyoto-style restrictions on carbon emissions are “all economic pain for no environmental gain”, as Marlo Lewis describes such systems. India and China won’t be putting the brakes on their economy any time soon, so why should we intentionally harm our own economy to prevent further warming of the planet by less than one degree Celsius? For more background on “cap and trade” CLICK HERE.

Be sure to call your senators and tell them not to drink the global warming kool-aid. I know an election is coming up in 2008, but the GOP should not buy into the idea that the American people support putting their economy at an economic disadvantage with emerging nations like India and China by self-imposing regulations that fail to prevent global warming.

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