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Inhofe dares Senators to support global warming bill that 'significantly increases' gas prices
Environment & Public Works Committee ^ | April 29, 2008 | Senator James Inhofe

Posted on 04/30/2008 11:38:58 AM PDT by EPW Comm Team

Senator Inhofe Excerpt: "Despite this gloomy EIA analysis, proponents of Lieberman-Warner are still claiming the bill will not impose economic harm to America. Only in Washington could higher energy prices be characterized as not negatively impacting the U.S. economy. If Democrats have their way, Americans will pay significantly more at the pump, in their homes, and in many cases, with their jobs, all to accomplish an undetectable impact on the climate.

"The question now is which U.S. Senator will dare to stand on the Senate Floor a month from now to vote in favor of significantly increasing the price of gas at the pump?"

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=9c37aa20-802a-23ad-44f6-a80aeae48b62&Region_id=&Issue_id= April 29, 2008

EIA’s Analysis of Lieberman-Warner Reveals Massive Economic Pain

WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment & Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on today's Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysis of the America's Climate Security Act – S. 2191 (Lieberman-Warner) global warming cap-and-trade bill.

"Multiple government and private analyses now clearly show that the bill is wrong for America," Senator Inhofe said. "The EIA analysis projected unacceptable increases in Americans average annual household energy bills up to $325 in 2020 and $723 by 2030. And this does not factor in transportation-related costs. The EIA also found that the Lieberman-Warner bill would lead to higher coal, natural gas and petroleum prices.

"Further, EIA’s gloomy economic analysis is contingent upon the U.S. building more than 2 1/2 times as many new nuclear plants as are currently operating -- an increase so massive and unrealistic as to be fictional. EIA also found Lieberman-Warner would result in up to a 9.5% drop in manufacturing output by 2030.

"Despite this gloomy EIA analysis, proponents of Lieberman-Warner are still claiming the bill will not impose economic harm to America. Only in Washington could higher energy prices be characterized as not negatively impacting the U.S. economy. If Democrats have their way, Americans will pay significantly more at the pump, in their homes, and in many cases, with their jobs, all to accomplish an undetectable impact on the climate.

"The question now is which U.S. Senator will dare to stand on the Senate Floor a month from now to vote in favor of significantly increasing the price of gas at the pump?"

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Background: Both government and private sector analysis have shown the cost of the Lieberman-Warner bill to be extremely painful. See: Inhofe Statement on EPA’s Analysis of Lieberman-Warner; 1.8 MILLION JOBS MAY BE LOST BY 2020, NEW STUDY SAYS; New CBO Study Further Exposes Cap-and-Trade Flaws; NEW ANALYSIS: CARBON MANDATE WOULD HARM CONSUMERS, JOBS AND ECONOMY; CBO Warns that Cap-And-Trade Approach Could Create ‘Windfall' Profits & Harm Poor; EPA Analysis Projects Climate Bill Will Raise Gas Prices 53 Cents Per Gallon;

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 110th; climate; globalwarming; inhofe; inhofegp; inhofegw; oklahoma; senate
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1 posted on 04/30/2008 11:38:58 AM PDT by EPW Comm Team
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To: EPW Comm Team

That’s MY Senator!!!!


2 posted on 04/30/2008 11:41:35 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: EPW Comm Team

This disaster is called Lieberman-Warner. Get it? Lieberman? Freepers’ favorite democrat.


3 posted on 04/30/2008 11:42:22 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA
Lieberman? Freepers’ favorite democrat. independant

There, fixed it.

4 posted on 04/30/2008 11:44:52 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: EPW Comm Team

Just how many freepers will now rush to agree with this “stalwart” conservative?


5 posted on 04/30/2008 11:45:53 AM PDT by Grunthor (Which is more transparent, John McCains Styrofoam humility or Barack Obamas polyester sincerity?)
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To: savedbygrace
"That’s MY Senator!!!!"

He's an excellent Senator. You have much to be proud of.

6 posted on 04/30/2008 11:46:04 AM PDT by avacado
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To: EPW Comm Team

He da’ MAN!


7 posted on 04/30/2008 11:46:17 AM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Puppage
Lieberman? Freepers’ favorite democrat. independant

Lieberman? McCain's favorite independent.

fixed it further.
Lieberman was all over Florida stumping for McCain.
McCain supports this nonsense entirely.

8 posted on 04/30/2008 11:50:38 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: EPW Comm Team; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; CygnusXI; Fiddlstix; Timeout; Entrepreneur; ...
Bravo !

 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

9 posted on 04/30/2008 11:51:35 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: savedbygrace

Doesn’t John McCain also support Golbal Warming?

So won’t he also support this bill?

“It was common in those days, as it is in ours, to identify the Communists as leftist and the Nazis as rightists, as if they stood on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. But Mises knew differently. They both sported the same ideological pedigree of socialism. “The German and Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer’s goods for his consumption.”

The difference between the systems, wrote Mises, is that the German pattern “maintains private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary prices, wages, and markets.” But in fact the government directs production decisions, curbs entrepreneurship and the labor market, and determines wages and interest rates by central authority. “Market exchange,” says Mises, “is only a sham.”

Source:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008365/posts


10 posted on 04/30/2008 11:51:51 AM PDT by stockpirate (Be a MAVERICK in the GOP , go against the wishes of our nominee John McCain!)
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To: DManA
With an ACU rating like LIEberman has, it is amazing that many FReepers think he's a candidate to cross over to the Republicrat Party.

Zell Miller is another one. Just look at his voting record!

11 posted on 04/30/2008 11:52:47 AM PDT by fweingart (It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in!)
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To: savedbygrace

Damn. And I’m stuck with Boxer and Feinstein (and Pelosi in the House). I’m so screwed.


12 posted on 04/30/2008 11:54:07 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: savedbygrace

Wish he was mine!


13 posted on 04/30/2008 11:54:11 AM PDT by fweingart (It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in!)
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To: DManA

Lieberman’s right on ONE issue - the war on terror.


14 posted on 04/30/2008 11:57:06 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: EPW Comm Team; All

Scientists call on UN Climate Committee to admit they are wrong and renounce Global Warming

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2002545/posts
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The UN’s Climate Committee leadership and policies were today challenged by four scientists, including one Nobel Peace Prize winner, from around the world to admit that CO2 centred Global Warming theories are now disproved by observations and to renounced that theory and associated ‘devastating policies’ which are weakening the world economy and increasing food shortages and destruction of forest across the planet.


15 posted on 04/30/2008 11:57:23 AM PDT by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: bill1952
Lieberman? McCain's favorite independent

Leiberman, Gore's favorite running mate.

now it's really fixed!

16 posted on 04/30/2008 12:01:50 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: Puppage
Lieberman? Freepers’ favorite democrat. independant democrat

Fixed it back. Just because the left wing nut jobs in Connecticut threw him under the bus because he wants to protect Israel doesn't mean that he's changed his voting patterns.

17 posted on 04/30/2008 12:01:53 PM PDT by kidd
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To: EPW Comm Team

Quick, put this man on the Endangered Species List! This “Republicanis Heroicus” has a big set.

As Patton said at Bastogne:”A man that eloquent must be rescued.”


18 posted on 04/30/2008 12:05:20 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1 - Take no prisoners))
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To: EPW Comm Team

How long has Inhofe been in the Senate? And he still doesn’t understand that his colleagues don’t give a flying -—— about you and me or about making our lives worse as long as they get more money and more control (and if ther’s more sex in the bargain, all the better.)

This is the ONLY thing most of them care about at all. Period.


19 posted on 04/30/2008 12:07:38 PM PDT by TBP
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To: savedbygrace
"That’s MY Senator!!!!"

He's my favorite since my Senator, Santorum, is gone.

If the Democrats pass this hoax and cause middle class elderly on fixed incomes to choose between eating and heating, they'll just blame Bush and the Republicans for the results anyway. More than likely other than Senator Inhofe and a handful of others, the Republicans and Bush will deserve to be blamed as much as the Democrats if it becomes law.

20 posted on 04/30/2008 12:13:49 PM PDT by penowa
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