Radio Blogcaast Co-Hosting

Sorry I suffer from fat finger.

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I was asked to co-host a radio blogcast over the weekend. Many people ask me to share it. At their request here it is.

Just click on the link and look for the Co-Host Rob Taylor part.


Understand Our Times

CAP AND TRADE (CO2 REDUCTION)

A SUMMARY OF ENERGY RIGHTS VIOLATION

by Rob Taylor - Constitution Party of WI Candidate for US Senate

Does anyone have any memory of why the Department of Energy (DOE) was established? Come on, think hard. OK, not many people do. We the taxpayers of America have spend several hundred billions of dollars in support of an agency that no one can truly remember what it was created for.

The DOE was instituted on August 4th, 1977 to lessen the dependence on foreign oil. Yes you read it right, to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Thirty one years later the budget for this necessary department is at $24.2 billion a year. It has over 16,000 federal employees with 100,000 plus contract employees.

Let’s take a look at what we have gotten for our money over these years, shall we. Along with the current administration and Congress, the DOE has become the major focus point and strong arm of the environmentalist movement. The department has also spearheaded the most outrageous energy bill and policy ever known to the American public. The Energy Tax Bill of 2009 or better known as the Cap and Trade bill which is designed to cut carbon emissions but in fact will do more harm than good.

This bill will raise gas prices by not allowing us to drill for oil which right now is the best and second cheapest source of energy. By not allowing us to drill for oil off our shores or extract oil shale from the Rockies, we will become more and more depended on foreign sources.

Will OPEC keep prices down? I hardly think so. We will see the rise of

$4 to $6 or higher gas prices at the pump by the end of 2009. And this is if the Middle-East is stable. At this point all bets are off as to what might happen. If we cannot be reliant on our own energy, how will it affect us? We have to get to work, we need oil and gas to cook, be able to bathe and to keep warm. It is estimated that the bill would raise the cost of living of a typical household by $1,600 to $4,000 a year. This bill would also give us a regressive tax directed at the poor and middle income. I find this—as do many others—a clear violation of our civil rights. This bill will cause poor families to lose their homes, it will make life tougher for families who’ve worked and struggled to join the middle class.

Our jobs are depended on energy; most of the companies use energy to build the products or provide the services that keeps us employed. This bill would impose a costly policy that would penalize Americans with little effect on global warming. The bill would give us job losses of

1.2 million to 2.3 million by 2015. Some of these jobs will be lost for good, due to the impact of higher energy costs on economic activity. The American economy could experience a substantial outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to those nations with lower energy costs. This is huge reason along with high government regulations that companies are moving to China and other foreign countries.

Cap and trade, in other words, is a scheme to redistribute income and wealth -- but in a very curious way. It takes from the working class and gives to the affluent; takes from Miami, Ohio, and gives to Miami, Florida; and takes from an industrial America that is already struggling and gives to rich Silicon Valley and Wall Street "green tech" investors who know how to leverage the political class. Our jobs and way of life are being traded away so that some elite groups that don’t even know how to hunt, fish or even camp can say they have a “Green America”. They want the land, they want the power, they want what is yours…and they are getting it.

They will use C&T to regulate how much energy you can use, how much you can drive, what you drive, where you can work, how warm you home will be. In clear order, the government will tell you what to do, all the while the elite and a select political few can use all the energy they want by just trading carbon offsets (In words of the common person, that’s “phony money” or “contracts”). I believe that is called socialism and I am going to do all I can to fight it. You must join me and other energy-rights patriots in the battle for our energy freedom.

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