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Climate bill is a killer
Climate bill is a killer
EDITOR:
As I watch the debate unfold regarding climate change legislation, I am amazed at the lack of understanding on behalf of our politicians with respect to the economic ramifications if such irresponsible legislation should become law. With one stroke of a pen, this pending legislature could wipe out my business and it 25 jobs right here in the Youngstown area. We, along with our steel industry customers, can not compete on an international basis when we are fundamentally disadvantaged with yet another tax that we will have to cover in our pricing. We are already struggling to compete on a global basis given our higher wage rates and benefits in this country compared to other nations such as India and China.
The house climate bill, known as Waxman-Markey, is a tax in disguise, nothing more, nothing less. It will harm many small businesses and families like mine. An implicit tax increase is not a favorable solution to climate change — neither is artificially driving up energy costs at the beginning of the high cost winter season.
Many families and businesses are struggling to make ends meet. Tax hikes and higher costs are the thing we need at this time. I call on Sens. George Voinovich and Sherrod Brown to take this into account should a bill come before them in the Senate. Now is the time for our elected officials to stand up for the hard working families of this state by opposing legislation.
TODD OLSON, owner
BOC Water Hydraulics Inc.
Salem
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Green is the new red! Lots of traitors in DC, the statehouses, corporations and Hollyweird wanting to reduce America down to the level of the rest of the world.
Here is a free market solution to cutting emissions because this new clean energy technology generates electricity at around 1 cent per kilowatt hour! As reported by both CNN and the New York Times:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1iqa0dSJ...
Check out above link to a 2 and a half minute youtube video of a CNN report. What are the odds that the independent testimony below is fraudulent (not bloody likely unless you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist)? Here is a silver bullet technology: clean cheap and abundant energy.
In a joint statement, Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Dr. Amos Mugweru, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. Peter Jansson P.E., Associate Professor of Engineering said, "In independent tests conducted over the past three months involving 10 solid fuels made by us from commercially-available chemicals, our team of engineering and chemistry professors, staff, and students at Rowan University has independently and consistently generated energy in excesses ranging from 1.2 times to 6.5 times the maximum theoretical heat available through known chemical reactions."
Also, check out this article: http://www.nytimes.com/external/ventureb...
Brad Arnold
St Louis Park, MN, USA
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