The Climate Game

Here's how the climate game is played in Washington. First, what do you think of the proposed Cap and Tax legislation that would put a big tax on all use of fossil fuels. This means your gasoline, as well as heating oil, natural gas, and the coal your utility burns to produce your electricity. This also trickles into your food bill, ant the cost of anything you buy that requires transportation, in other words, everything.

Most people oppose this. The actual legislation failed in the face of massive public disapproval coupled with the politicians desire to hold on to their phony-baloney jobs.

Where there's a will to raise taxes, there's a way, and the administration is having the EPA do its dirty work by imposing "fees" on producers of carbon-based fuels, in the interest of preventing global warming, or as is now in vogue, "climate change".

Republicans have proposed an amendment to the Small Business Innovation Research bill that would forbid the EPA from getting involved in the climate hysteria business, and a lot of people favor this. To get around having to support the people, Sen. Rockefeller has put foreword a similar, but completely toothless version of the same amendment so the Dems can vote for his bill, then tell the folks back home that they favored limiting the EPA, but the nasty Repubs wouldn't let them, so cap and tax became law in spite of their efforts.

Let your Senator know that you're not fooled; A vote for the Rockefeller amendment is a vote for Cap and Tax.