“The last thing American families need is for our nation’s lawmakers to put our economy in reverse by enacting a national carbon tax.”
“A ‘carbon dividend’ is simply wealth redistribution by another name. And history is littered with the economic casualties wrought by heavy-handed government interference in the marketplace.”
Yesterday, a group of free-market, classical-liberal/libertarian, conservative groups sent a letter to The Honorable Paul Ryan (Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives) and The Honorable Kevin McCarthy (Majority Leader, U.S. House of Representatives) asking for consideration on H.Con.Res. 119, “express[ing] the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to American families and businesses and is not in the best interest of the United States.”
The letter follows (in red), with inserted comments by me.
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A carbon tax is a policy with one definable goal: to raise the cost of traditional, reliable, affordable sources of energy. …
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Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
Wind and Solar Require Massive Subsidies
Renewable energy seeks demand, investment to survive Trump squeeze
Technical Experts: Wind Turbines Pose “Significant Danger” To Environment
Video: Wind Turbine Infrasound
Even ‘clean’ and ‘green’ energy have an environmental impact
Energy development: free market purists vs the state
Two North Texas wind projects cancelled due to military concerns
Magical Wind Power: Illusions versus Reality
Ontario’s new premier must save the province
The BP 2018 Statistical Review, electricity and CO2 emissions
China’s Renewable Energy Growth Isn’t as Good as It Seems
Fearing Climate Change, Experts Say Nuclear Industry Faces Collapse
Successful passage of an important US Nuclear bill
If Nuclear Power Is So Safe, Why Are We So Afraid Of It?…
Continue Reading“If you think that [the strategy of #ExxonKnew] sounds like a threat to free speech, you’re right … [as] activists have admitted ….”
“Their goal from the beginning: use litigation to link energy producers and tobacco companies, according to a summary report that the workshop attendees published.”
“Emails obtained under Freedom of Information requests have also shown that many of the state AGs invited to the March 29, 2016, press conference with Schneiderman and Al Gore actually refused to join the #ExxonKnew campaign, over concerns about its scope and intent.”
“From the very beginning, the #ExxonKnew campaign was orchestrated by the Rockefellers and anti-fossil fuel activists who want oil and natural gas companies to ‘pay’ for climate change.”
Well-devised and generously funded environmental campaigns are nothing new. But from the very beginning, the #ExxonKnew campaign has been different.