4 Ways Obama's Cap and Trade "Climate Bill" Will Personally Affect You

Cap and Tax… National Energy Tax… or my personal favorite… "a pile of sh#t" to quote Rep. John Boehnor. These are the names folks with common sense call The Ones Cap and Trade bill. You won't get the administration to call it that though. They want to call it a global warming bill or a climate bill, or some other cute and fuzzy name. BS! This is a huge tax on the American people. That would be YOU and me. I already know it, but if you're not paying attention to what's happening in Washington you don't.

Let me give you just a few things to think about, a few things to consider courtesy of The Heritage Foundation. Here's just a taste of how The One is about to screw you if you don't tell your senator to VOTE NO on this bill when it gets in front of them. Tell them it's either no on cap and trade or they go home come election time.

HOW IT AFFECTS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY PERSONALLY

1. Raises your electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation
   example: $500/mo to $950/mo
2. Raises your inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 58 percent
   example: $2.50/gal to $3.95/gal
3. Raises your residential natural gas prices by 55 percent
   example: $300/mo to $465/mo
4. Raises your average family's annual energy bill by $1,241

HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR COUNTRY

• Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.4 trillion
  USA will be $9.4 trillion poorer in ten years than without it
• Destroy 1,145,000 jobs on average, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by over 2,479,000 jobs
  Does not need explaining

The House voted on this monstrosity without even reading it. They don't even know what's in it. The Senate has voted on the last two monstrosities… the stimulus and the budget, without reading them. The amount of control over your life and liberty this bill takes away from you is breathtaking and they didn't even have the decencey to read it. Look again at the the costs above and think how just these will affect your life and then realize that it's being done for this:

"…a 90-year program that, as calculated by climatologists, will lower temperatures by only hundredths of a degree in 2050 and no more than two-tenths of a degree at the end of the century. …all for a change in world temperature that might not be noticeable."

This is nuts and we have to stand up now and stop it. Contact your senator, do it now and do it often. Be a royal pain in their A#S. Be persistent but polite. Find a TeaParty in your area and GO. Get involved and we can still turn this thing around.