"If I can create legislation that would allow this country to stop buying so much foreign oil and make us safer — plus find a solution to the carbon pollution hurting our planet — that would be a good use of my time..."
Dim bulb or sell out. Carbon legislation does nothing to slow the import of foreign oil.
Wind farms and solar plants do exactly "nothing" to slow the importing of foreign oil.
If you want to make us energy independent, you'll open up the coastlines to drilling, now. You'll repeal the moratorium on oil shale like now. You'll encourage the building of coal-to-liquids plants "now".
Carbon credits will put the government in charge of every, and I mean every, area of life in America. Business life, presonal life, what you do in your home, what you do within your family. There will be nothing beyond the reach of carbon law because that is the way it is designed. It has nothing to do with energy independence and will never achieve it because the people who are proposing it are sold out to OPEC.
Get these people out of office or prepare to lose it all.
Unfortunately, he was reelected last year. So we're stuck with this queer POS until 2014. And, unfortunately again, SC does have any recall mechanism.