Letter to the Senators
This is the letter I sent to my two Senators, Dick Durbin and Roland Burris about Cap and Trade.
Dear Senator,
Soon your chamber, like the House of Representatives will try and ram through the Cap and Trade legislation to transform our energy policy.
Like the House will the Senate be voting on 1200 pages of legislation that no member has had time to read?
Will you and Senator Burris have the courage to come home and tell us the truth of the costs of this bill in the Midwest, where coal electricity is the prevalent source?
Will you repeat to them what the President said, that "electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket" under cap and trade? Or will you repeat his claim that this will create thousands of new jobs, even though the European experience with Cap and Trade has been just the opposite?
Will both of you go downstate, and tell the families who earn their livings in the coal mines that the bill is designed to put them out of work?
Will you come to Abbott Labs in North Chicago, or Baxter in Round Lake, and tell the folks there that their jobs will probably move to a facility overseas? Abbott and Baxter use a lot of coal generated steam for their drug processing, under this legislation productions costs will skyrocket.
Will you tell those people that the double whammy of the proposed health care legislation and energy legislation will make it necessary for their jobs to move for their company to survive?
I don't believe you have the political courage to do this sir. Instead, I think what will happen is if it passes you'll have lunch with the limousine liberals on the North Shore, and tout what a great thing you've done for the environment. You’ll ignore what it's going to do to the working men and women in your state and their families, the people your party claims to be the champions for.
Dear Senator,
Soon your chamber, like the House of Representatives will try and ram through the Cap and Trade legislation to transform our energy policy.
Like the House will the Senate be voting on 1200 pages of legislation that no member has had time to read?
Will you and Senator Burris have the courage to come home and tell us the truth of the costs of this bill in the Midwest, where coal electricity is the prevalent source?
Will you repeat to them what the President said, that "electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket" under cap and trade? Or will you repeat his claim that this will create thousands of new jobs, even though the European experience with Cap and Trade has been just the opposite?
Will both of you go downstate, and tell the families who earn their livings in the coal mines that the bill is designed to put them out of work?
Will you come to Abbott Labs in North Chicago, or Baxter in Round Lake, and tell the folks there that their jobs will probably move to a facility overseas? Abbott and Baxter use a lot of coal generated steam for their drug processing, under this legislation productions costs will skyrocket.
Will you tell those people that the double whammy of the proposed health care legislation and energy legislation will make it necessary for their jobs to move for their company to survive?
I don't believe you have the political courage to do this sir. Instead, I think what will happen is if it passes you'll have lunch with the limousine liberals on the North Shore, and tout what a great thing you've done for the environment. You’ll ignore what it's going to do to the working men and women in your state and their families, the people your party claims to be the champions for.
Labels: Cap and Trade, Dick Durbin, Roland Burris
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