Cap and Trade vote on Friday

[joeydb]

Whatever you guys do, call your congressman at 202-224-3121 and tell them to vote AGAINST this bill.

Many of you already know what this is, so I'll keep this brief. The bill creates an artificial market with "carbon credits", the effect of which is to reward countries that don't produce any carbon dioxide, you know -- the naturally occurring gas that we breathe out and plants breathe in so they can make the oxygen we need. Our carbon dioxide is "capped" from cars, factories -- they can't stop us from exhaling yet, and we "buy carbon credits" from countries that produce nothing, so some third world countries will get big checks paid for from the increased energy bills that all of us in the United States will pay.

In addition, whether you believe in "Global Warming" or not, this will not help to reduce the worldwide output of CO2 since it is the Chinese who are putting up a new smokestack-type of power plant every 2 weeks. But it will cripple our economy unnecessarily since it is the power companies and us that will be punished. It is us who will not be able to afford to run our air conditioners or heat, for no reason but the errant thoughts of undereducated do-gooder liberals Congress.

By the way, as I write this, we in the Northeast are having one of the coolest starts to summer in recent memory, and last year was one where there was not one 100 degree day. Any of you guys ever see something that is heated and spontaneously cools on its own, just to reheat again at record levels? No, because such things don't happen in the physical universe -- the phenomenon does not exist.

I enjoy political discussions here and I do respect others who feel differently on the conservative versus liberal points of view. But this bill is that important to stop because the freedoms and lifestyle we all enjoy require access to affordable energy, and I think it's a cause we all share an interest in.