Subject:
Waxman-Markey bill (Cap and Trade)
To:
Rep. Steny Hoyer
October 19, 2009
Range magazine is a magazine about country issues published in Carson City, NV. I hope you are familiar with it. Below is an excerpt from an article by Michael Coffman, Ph.D., in the Fall 2009 issue. After reading this excerpt, I hope you will read the entire article and vote against the Waxman-Markey bill.
"Despite the many and expensive concerns of using alternative energy sources such as wind and solar, President Obama says we should follow the example of Spain, which is now producing nearly 20 percent of its energy needs from renewables. During his campaign, Obama claimed that he would create 5 million new, green jobs in our transition to renewable energy.
A study by King Juan Carlos University in Spain found that 2.2 jobs were destroyed in other areas of the economy for every green job created by government decree. Further, it cost $754,000 for every green job created. Applying simple math, Obama's five million new green jobs will only come at a cost of 11 million existing jobs. Worse, 90 percent of those green jobs are construction jobs that will be lost once the infrastructure nears completion. The study concluded that Spain's renewable policies were "terribly economically counterproductive." The authors warn the United States that "the Spanish/EU-style 'green jobs' agenda now being promoted in the United States in fact destroys job."
Wind and solar can certainly play a niche role in America's energy supply, and may eventually play a significant role if the technology is developed to mitigate most of its seemingly endless limitations. But as Vaclav Klaus, president of the EU and the Czech Republic, warns, "These technologies have not yet been invented…There is no known and economically feasible method or technology by which industrial economies can survive on expensive, unreliable, clean, green, renewable energy." (Excerpts from Vaclav Klaus' speech to the International Conference on Climate Change in New York City, March 2009)
Implementation of the Waxman-Markey bill would seriously harm the economy of the United States, cause the unemployment of 6 million people, and substantially reduce every family's standard of living. (emphasis added)
Perhaps this wrenching transformation of our society would be justified if the doom-and-gloom forecasts of catastrophic consequences of man-caused global warming were correct. However, readers of RANGE (magazine) know that more than 32,000 scientists in the United States alone are now saying there is no convincing scientific evidence that man is causing global warming. Thousands of leading scientists around the world have radically changed their minds because emerging science is increasingly negating the man-caused theory."
The above text is copied from "Cap and Trade Looms Large" by Michael Coffman, Ph.D., RANGE magazine, Fall 2009.
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