Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/13/2008 5:59:18 PM PDT by Libloather
Senator Byrd In Step with West Virginians, Poll Shows
Byrd Opposes Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Rejected by Overwhelming Majority in Region
For Release: June 6, 2008
Washington, DC - Senator Robert Byrd, who opposes America's Climate Security Act presently scheduled for a key Senate vote at 9 AM Friday, is in sync with a majority of West Virginians, says a poll released by the National Center for Public Policy Research.
The survey found 64% of likely voters in mid-Atlantic states (WV, VA, MD, PA, NY, NJ and DE) oppose spending more for gasoline to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 71% oppose spending more for electricity to reduce such emissions.
"Econometric studies conducted by researchers at the EPA, Duke University, MIT, the National Association of Manufacturers and others have different estimates of the cost of the bill, but all agree it would increase energy costs," said David A. Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research.
"West Virginians don't support price increases of any kind in either gasoline or electricity. By opposing this bill, Senator Byrd shows he is in touch with the sentiments of people back home. The question now is whether Senator Jay Rockefeller will join Senator Byrd and the people of West Virginia or the special interests promoting this bill."
The America's Climate Security Act (S. 3036) -- also called "Lieberman-Warner" after chief sponsors Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA) -- would cap the greenhouse gas emissions of power plants, fuel refiners and producers, chemical producers and other manufacturers. The proposal -- frequently referred to as a "cap-and-trade" -- would also establish an trading system to permit companies that emit fewer greenhouse gases than they are permitted to sell the excess portion to companies exceeding their allowances. Sponsors claim the bill would reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions up to 63% by 2050.
"Lieberman-Warner would ration power, raise the cost of energy and consumer goods, and effectively impose the largest tax increase in history on the American people," said Ridenour. "Americans are already struggling with rising costs. The least their elected representative can do is not make matters worse."
"Senator Byrd understands that this bill wouldn't just make matters worse, but do it for no reason whatsoever," Ridenour added. "Even if Lieberman-Warner targets for reducing greenhouse emission could be met, which they can't, any temperature reductions would be imperceptible."
The poll questions and cross-tabs are available at www.nationalcenter.org. The National Center is a non-partisan educational foundation established in 1982. 99% of its funding comes from 72,000 individual active donors.
Just goes to show you that most people are dumber than they look.
One of these days the people of WV will have to do without Robert Carlyle Byrd, but in the meantime the show goes on. People of WV can’t imagine life without Byrd, the way the Carolinians once were about Thurmond, and the Texans about Bentsen.
“As Democrats from regions of the country that will be most immediately affected by climate legislation, we want to share our concerns with the bill that is currently before the Senate. We commend your leadership in attempting to address one the most significant threats to this and future generations; however, we cannot support final passage of the Boxer Substitute in its current form,” ten Democratic Senators wrote in a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senator Boxer.
The ten Democrats Senators were: Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Senator John D. Rockefeller (D-WV), Carl Levin (D-MI), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Jim Webb (D-VA), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Clair McCaskill (D-MO), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Ben Nelson (D-FL).
I could only find the letter in PDF,
Even after being embalmed, he'll still weep about Unca Teddy.
Does he have any brain cells that still work?
Where you bean, keed? (I think you maybe slippin’...)
LOL. No way. Just out of town for a short vacation. :-)
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