“[U]nder my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” -- Barack Obama (click on photo to see video of this statement)
 

UPDATE, June 26: The House passed H.R. 2454 today by a vote of 219 to 212. Click here to see how your rep voted. The "cap and trade" battle now moves on to the Senate. For more information and to take action, see "Defeat the 'Cap and Trade' Energy Tax Bill in the Senate."

An expensive new “tax” bill will be considered on the floor of the House as early as this Friday, June 26. This bill is known as the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” H.R. 2454, also known as the Waxman-Markey climate change bill.

Most Americans know this bill as a “cap-and-trade” bill for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming by creating a system of pollution permits that energy companies must buy before releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

There are several very important reasons for Americans to oppose this bill:

(1) At exactly the time when more and more Americans are realizing that our federal government is out of control, this bill would establish a whole new unconstitutional activity of the federal government and give it yet another regulatory tool for increasing the cost of doing business, which would necessarily translate into higher costs for consumers.

(2) This bill would lead to increased expenses for American households of thousands of dollars per year. A recent Congressional Budget Office report estimated that the cost per household would be as little as $175 per year. However, the Heritage Foundation has responded with “CBO Grossly Underestimates Costs of Cap and Trade,” in which they point out that the CBO study assumes nearly 100% of the increased costs for businesses will be rebated to consumers by the federal government (when has this ever happened?) and omits consideration of negative impacts on the economy of thousands of dollars per household per year. Bottom line, don’t rely on the CBO report to be an accurate forecast of the additional costs you’ll be paying each year due to this cap and trade bill. For additional analysis of the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, see "The Waxman-Markey Global Warming Bill: Is the Economic Pain Justified by the Environmental Gain?"

(3) The whole reason for existence of the expensive cap and trade scheme in H.R. 2454 is based on the global warming myth that man’s activities are producing significant temperature increases. Take a cold bath in reality by reading "A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming."

We must not provide the federal government with new powers to regulate businesses that would lead to at least hundreds of dollars of new expenses per household each year and more likely to thousands of dollars of new expenses per year.

Take action now and help preserve your freedom and prosperity by telling your representative in the U.S. House that you are strongly opposed to the cap and trade 'tax' increase bill, H.R. 2454!
 

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Brandi Giauque said:

Mom Let's get this straight. You are going to tax the people that are already being taxed to death. We have people in our country that can't afford to pay their bills already and we are going to make raise their electricity rates 40%?? I guess that since it doesn't affect you or anyone in Congress then it must be okay, right?? I voted for you to help make this country right side up, think about what you are doing and the effects that it's going to have for people who depend on you. Not your wife or daughters, the American people.

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June 24, 2009
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AntonioSosa said:

Cap and trade would kill the U.S. economy Cap and Trade “would be the equivalent of an atomic bomb directed at the U.S. economy—all without any scientific justification,” says famed climatologist Dr. S. Fred Singer. It would significantly increase taxes and the cost of energy, forcing many companies to close, thus increasing unemployment, poverty and dependence. Cap and trade represents huge taxes and cost increases, which will hurt mostly the poor and the middle class. Cap and trade will give dictatorial powers to Obama and will further enrich his billionaire friends (Gore, Soros, Goldman Sachs, Obama’s Chicago Climate Exchange friends, GE, the United Nations, etc.) -- all at our expense and at the expense of our children and grandchildren. Those brainwashed to the point of wanting to destroy the economy to "prevent global warming" are behaving like the most primitive human beings who were duped into believing that human sacrifices would ensure them good weather. Human beings don't have the power to control climate! And killing the economy will not help the environment. Poor countries can’t protect the environment. Just look at Haiti! Please do what you can to defend your family and your country. Write to your Representative -- https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

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June 24, 2009
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Peter Steele said:

Philip M. Crane R-Ill Phil Crane was a political friend and ally who knew my late father as a Son of the American Revolution and wrote two fine books "The Democrats' Dilemma and The Sum of Good Government. He knew my family not to be socialists and communists. Crane memorialized Dad in 1989 when he died and sent the flag to my late mother as I have it at my house. What the Democrats are doing to us is hurting the American People as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton did to us. Peter F. Steele

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June 24, 2009
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Joe Miller said:

Cap and Tax........or...........Tax and Tax When are you people in Washington going to stop this madness? We voted you into office to fix the problems that were going on. Have you forgotten why you are there? Remember, thanks to the "freedom of Information act" we will know how you vote on these matters. So if you have plans on being in Washington for any lenght of time, you better pay attention to the people who sent you to Washington. Because we can put someone else in your place come election time. We as a whole pay ENOUGH taxes and we do not appreciate it when it is wasted or lost due to your own political agendas. Didn't everyone take the hint with the "Tea Parties" that were going on this year? We have had enough. I do not want my childern and grand childern paying for your lack of judgement.

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June 24, 2009
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Pat Henry said:

the attempt to end the middle America In a last paragraph of my own letter to Congress, I noted: I think it is clear that I am urging you to oppose all such "green" bills, including this current "cap-and-trade" camel's-nose-under-the-tent statism parley. It will, out of necessity, be ignored in large measure in practice. At least that is my prediction. People must feed their families, after all. But it will increase the power and terror of government agents among peaceful people wanting to prosper and benefit their communities. Perhaps such crippling of the middle class and empowering of those who come up with bottom-up solutions is the real intent of some of the promoters of "cap-and-trade." In any case, a bit of reflection, I think, shows that this attempt at sweeping centralized control is 1) impractical, 2) positively harmful, and 3) will not accomplish its ostensible goals even if these were legitimate goals.

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June 24, 2009
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Bobetta Cavcom said:

How can cap and trade help the already broken economy? Nothing makes sense anymore. It's all about control from the almighty "O" and the final erosion of the middle class so that the incentive to be creative and compete will no longer exist. It will be the government dictating to us all and the elimination of a free society, as it was once set forth in the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Our freedom is being taken away from all of us. Just look at what's transpired since Jan. 20, 2009.......... economically, financially,

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June 24, 2009
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bg said:

Marxism at Work.... Cap and Trade is an intentional nail in the coffin for America. We can't be naïve anymore that Barry and those that pull his strings have our best interest at heart. He is attempting to put though at hyper-speed one bill after another with a compliant Congress. Those that don't follow the train tracks get hit over the head by the complicit media, expounding on their private family matters. But they are silent about the sins on the left.

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June 25, 2009
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God save our country, save our children said:

... I pride myself as a United States Citizen. In my eyes and the eyes of every intelligent American our country is the greatest in the world. Why then are the powers that be trying to reduce us to third world status by bankrupting our country, stealing our freedoms and stifling the futures of our children. We must as a UNITED PEOPLE Take action against this ridiculous, careless and wreckless behavior!!!! Why are they not listening to the wants and desires of their own citizens???? I can't understand it, this is not the country that I know and love....I am truly scared for the future.

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June 25, 2009
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Michael Haltman said:

	The Political and Financial Markets Commentator Cap and trade will be another nail in the economic coffin of the United States. I posted a video of a right wing radio commentator from California (that's an oxymoron by itself) explaining the ramifications of this bill passing on my blog. Mike Haltman
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June 25, 2009 | url
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Jean Sadler said:

	... Quit bankrupting American!! Stop medling in the people's business! Stay out of my household and stop stealing my money!
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June 25, 2009
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John Staumph said:

... Tax logic based on partisan ideology? Put down the crack pipe Coopermine and get out of this "left/right" nonsense. The "left" and the "right" work for the same banksters and their associates at the Federal Reserve and have fully complicit state run media outlets to push their propaganda for all of their plans. The Republicans and Dems are both supportive of illegal and unconstitutional income taxes and unconstituional and illegal institutions like the Federal Reserve. Coppermine how do you benefit from being taxed more heavily as a small farmer? People like you are the TARGET, they are not trying to help you out, they are trying to destroy you. But keep drinking the "yes we can" propaganda buddy! You want to tax poor people even MORE for simply living their life and using energy? In the land of the free? So what is next, if I wipe my ass with toilet paper I will have to pay a "save the trees" tax for simply wiping my ass? This all has nothing to do with phony "right/left" politics and everything to do with the globalists agenda for tanking our economy and promoting one world order. All of this North Korea, Iran, etc, crap,is also part of it I'm afraid. If this goes through, and they are successful in squashing Audit the Fed, the New World Order is treading on very thin waters though I must say. There are some sheeple starting to wake up from their slumber, and can see through the lies, manipulation in the media, and so forth. As far as global warming is concerned, CO2 is plant food, adn does not cause global warming. I do believe in global warming, however it is OUT OF OUR CONTROL AND IS THE RESULT OF THE SUN. The temperatures are rising on other planets as well. Are they "emitting too much CO2"? If people would actually learn things for themselves rather than taking fake politicians and media manipulators word for it this country would have routed out the banking tyrants long ago. If only we could revive Andrew Jackson..

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June 26, 2009
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Ale Sosa said:

Cap and trade I oppose the cap and trade!!!! This president needs to stop!!! he is rushing and showing his ignorance by trying to change so many things that our country does NOT need changed. STOP this president from moving forward. Stop him with his plan to change health care. Stop him. Everybody has to stand strong and he has to "HEAR OUR VOICES" He said this during his campain and he hear NOT ONE VOICE BUT HIS!!

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June 26, 2009
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us and them said:

	stop your sobbing face the facts that you, your children, their children, and so on are now slaves of the usa and soon to be the un
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June 27, 2009
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Gary Gray said:

	NO Bama STOP the madness!!!!!!!! Thank GOD in 3 1/2 years you will be out of office Mr.Obama!!! Then you can go back to wherever you came from!
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June 30, 2009
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Betty Hamlin said:

... This morning I spent hours looking for a place to move to out of the United States. This is no longer the country I grew up in and loved. I wish I could figure out a way to send all the people who have come here to enjoy the benefits of the United States back to wherever they came from. I don't like the politics they are bringing from their own countries. I don't like OBama's policies and will certainly work hard to get him out of office. In the meantime lets work hard to get some of the democrats out of the house and senate. This country is worth fighting for.

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July 01, 2009
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Roxan said:

... It's about putting a final nail in our economic coffin and the ONE/NEW WORLD ORDER where we will be the peasants with a relative handfull of elites that will be even wealthier than they already are. (think of the Rothschilds/Rockefellers, Al Gore, Prince Charles, etc along with the traiterous politicians) at the very least. And also control. Think of the micromanagement of everything we slaves will be doing, especially if we're microchipped as well.....Of course, China, India & Mexico isn't going to have to face this standard....Didn't anyone notice how filthy the Chinese air was when the Olympics were being televised? Did Al Gore and the Earth Justice/Day/Hour, ect people complain about that? Noooooo.

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July 02, 2009
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Roxan said:

	... Alex Jones/James Burmas has an excellent 6-pt You Tube article on this called: You Tube Alert Cap & Trade Bill-What you May Not Know-Call Your Senators Today. (The # they gave to call our senators is): 1-800-833-6354 and 202-224-3121 (hopefully, I didn't transpose that). Also check out AGENDA 21 and the United Nations.
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Roxan said:

	... I hope this is wrong, but Alex Jones also mentioned that the Youth Brigades such as the Climate/Police will actually go into homes and businesses to inspect them. I also hope he is wrong here, but he mentioned that few houses would meet the standards and these places would be bulldozed. (I definitely hope he's wrong there).
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July 02, 2009
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Donald B. Fairbairn said:

Semi Retired Engineer Due To Economy Tax and Trade Tax Bill is True Madness; Why can't our spinless congress pass CO2 limiting legislation with out a tax. Now Big Businesscan pour all the crap they. want into the environment as long as they meet standards down wind. This limit emissions bill is long overdue but lobbyist have been in control. Where will this tax go. Congress admits a million jobs will be lost and this would finance unemployment. Wind and solar could be supported, but no mention of Nuclear Power. Money should be directed to the near term clean energy source!! This is another chance for "Wall Streer" to speculate and drrive the cost up. Who will pay? The rate payers.

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July 02, 2009
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Linda Pompo said:

Cap and Trade The cap and trade bill will tax people to the max. With unemployment so high, people without jobs and now Obamba wants to take more money from the people and have even more power over our lives. Our country will be completely dependant on this government. Are they trying to bring America down. It sure feels that way when I look at what they are doing.So many things passed that hurt America. VOTE DOWN THIS CAP AND TRADE BILL. AND I PRAY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT WHO VOTES FOR THIS BILL.

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July 02, 2009
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TS Gordon said:

	Win- When? I think it's funny. First you bankrupt the entire World, then you recognize the value of free energy.
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July 02, 2009
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Lisa K said:

	... Obama has lost his mind, This cap and trade crap is for the birds! We are all screwed...
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July 03, 2009
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Bert Collins said:

	American You thiving poli-chichens need to learn to live/manage like most of us on a FIXED BUDGET!!!!!!
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July 03, 2009
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Rob Lammert said:

Cap and Trade Will the people see who votes them into submission? Unfortunately not. This country is so tied into voting party lines, that they have lost the entire concept of the issues and pure humanity. Now I am by all means not saying that we need to dump the party concept, but we need to open our eyes and truly see what our elected officials are doing to this country. Maybe we need to enforce term limits on all elected government officials, thus getting new members with new ideas in on these committees. The officials that we have in there now have no idea what is best for the 'average American' as none of them are 'average'. They all grew up with silver spoons and don't know what it is to pinch every penny to get through to the next paycheck. We all need to keep an eye on this, challenge your representatives, call / email / mail them and find out why they are voting the way they are. Tell them how what they do will effect your family. MAKE them care! More info at www.roblammert.com.

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Jeff Crocket said:

DAV Vietnam So I own this Condo in New Britain Ct. and I want to move into subsidized housing because i can't afford to live hear anymore as a Social Security beneficiary. OOPS!! I can't sell my home because it is not upgraded based on Al Gores Global Warming scream. It will cost me thousands to sell my home!! I don't have the money!! If I just walk away from my home, I will be arrested for not retrofitting my property and put in jail!!!!!! But My home will still not be retrofitted!! Then what happens??? Does Al Gore come in with his Green Storm troopers?? What does Daddy Gore want me to do?? Call my Congressman??

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July 09, 2009
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Gail Edwards said:

... The American Dream will never happen for me. A home was always just out of reach. Everytime I would come close to having it, the rules would change and it would be pushed to the back burner. I will never own my own home. haha. I can barely afford to exist, and anything that is going to add another burden of debt will make life more difficult than it is already. Meanwhile, I have had the pleasure of watching First Lady Michelle Obama and her six-thousand dollar purse today. What a joke America is. And what a hypocrite this president is. The Obama's are living it up while the rest of us are struggling to make ends meet. I can't believe in this country any more.

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July 10, 2009
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David Eiler said:

Small buisness owner This Cap & Trade is a joke to do this to America! After driving all our companies over seas to China a communist country with child slave labor and we alow our companies to bail out of the USA and run there to get away from EPA regulations from Union laws from high wages from inspections and saffty issues and we let them send this poison products lead taninted products poision drugs and dog & cat food and kill us and our pets and we still don't charge them tarriffs for incoming frieght to help save the companies we do have left by letting them make a profit from doing things the right way. Tax the hell out of China for poluting our air space and sending there poison junk to the USA and we would not have to tax and cape our companies left here to death! The political leaders in the USA are hell bent on totally destroying our whole economy. Get ride of them and get someone in there who will stand up with a spine and protect American interests and not kill American buisness and AMerican jobs. To hell with communist China!

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