Statements about Cap and Trade
"Every major study that has been done by a legitimate group ... shows that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs to be created if you pass our (cap-and-trade) legislation. And if you wind up pricing carbon."
The American Power Act "would cut our dependence on oil in half."
"The Congressional Budget Office -- supposedly non-partisan -- estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four (from cap and trade) will be $6,800 per year."
Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to "skyrocket."
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
The cap-and-trade bill will mean "2 million jobs lost."
Gas will reach $4 a gallon under a cap-and-trade plan.
The Obama administration's cap-and-trade plan would create "a $1,761 yearly energy tax."
"Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans."
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so."
On a cap-and-trade plan.
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
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