Talking about energy isn't what the liberals would call a "sexy topic" right now in America.
We are about to go into the Memorial Day holiday, the time when we honor our nation's heroes. We are not facing a weekend with $4.00 a gallon gas. As a result, it is hard to get people's attention on the cost of energy in our nation.
That is exactly what the ultra liberals in Washington are counting on. They don't want you to pay attention. They don't want you to know what is going on.
However, Obama and his ultra liberal supporters led by Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman on Capitol Hill are trying to pass a policy that will saddle every American family with an additional $3,100 burden through a national energy tax.
That's right, they are trying to slip this through under the radar while you are not looking and hand you the bill afterward!
You might have heard about this in passing as reporters blow by the story of the so-called "Cap and Trade" legislation on Capitol Hill.
Sounds complicated doesn't it. That's what the liberals are counting on.
Obama and Congressional liberals propelled by thousands on the extreme environmental left are trying to push through these energy taxes onto energy producers, taxes that will come back in our own personal light bills, gasoline prices and other utility bills.
We will pay.
In fact, as FOX NEWS reported from a story overlooked by others, then-candidate Obama spoke in San Francisco early last year, saying, "under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."
Worse yet, "Cap and Trade" as it is called is such an unwieldy tax scheme that energy producers are going to have to barter with each other to figure out their tax, a tax imposed on them "capping" so-called greenhouse gasses.
So we don't even know how big the tax will be, it could become enormous and the cost per family could be even higher than $3,100.
It is crazy.
The ultra-liberal extremist environmentalists are salivating over this because their real goal is to make energy so expensive that quite frankly we won't use it.
That's right; they want us to pay so much that it will force us not to use energy. That kind of warped thinking can drive an economy into the ground at a time when we are already trying to recover.
Just imagine if great Americans like Alexander Graham Bell with the telephone or Thomas Edison with the light bulb in 1879 decided they could not fire up or test their new devices because a National Energy Tax was too expensive. They might have just sat on the shelves and never happened.
This is urgent because the ultra liberal Democrats have already raced this into Congressional committees and now they are seeking to bring it up on the floor.
Just yesterday President Obama talked about "A Culture Change on Climate Change" and talked of the good work Henry Waxman was doing on these issues in the House.
Henry Waxman is the liberal Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He is driving the legislation. And as REUTERS news service reported Waxman's goal is to pass the bill out of the committee by the end of the week.
You are thinking about Memorial Day, they assume you're not watching as they are trying to tax you.
Worse, the WALL STREET JOURNAL reported today the liberal Democrats in the House have taken the unprecedented step of actually hiring a SPEED READER to rush their legislation through Committee.
You would almost think I am joking. This is the equivalent of a baseball team hiring a stringer to come in at the last minute to help them win a game.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL story today said that Republicans who are seeking to stop the bill might use a maneuver to force the liberal Democrats to read out loud the entire 946-page bill plus amendments.
So, Waxman has hired a temporary worker to speed read the bill and rush it through committee. The JOURNAL interviewed the newly hired staffer who said, "I can read a page about every 34 seconds."
We need to tell our Conservatives to fight back against these tactics. They need to know we are standing behind them in the fight.
Already the ultra liberals have rejected several common sense amendments, it is an indication of where they are heading.
- Liberal Democrats rejected a GOP amendment designed to protect middle-class families by stopping the national energy tax if gasoline prices hit $5 per gallon.
- They rejected an amendment that said if the U.S. unemployment rate should hit 15% or higher, the tax would end.
- They stopped an effort to end the new taxes if electricity bills increased more than 10 percent over 2009 rates.
Worse, they are trying to hide what they are up to.
The Liberals voted against an effort to require that any price increase for consumers as a result of the new national energy tax be fully disclosed on each utility bill, fuel pump, manufactured product label, or food label.
They just don't want you to know.
It is outrageous.
Help ACU send a message to Capitol Hill that Americans oppose this new national energy tax.
We need conservatives on Capitol Hill to feel bolstered in their efforts to fight back. The ultra-liberal, extreme environmentalists are barraging Capitol Hill and we need to fight back.
Thank you for all you do for ACU and our country.
