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DEMAND AFFORDABLE ENERGY NOW!
It is time for Washington politicians to quit playing the blame game and get to the business of providing taxpayers with a comprehensive energy policy that ensures affordable and reliable energy supplies.
Florida Taxpayers Union supports a comprehensive energy policy with the following elements:
To Learn more click here: http://www.nonewenergytaxes.org/ .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CONFIRMS THAT ANWAR WOULD PRODUCE AT LEAST 10.4 BILLION BARRELS OF OIL!And just how much oil could we recover from the Outer Continental Shelf? The Minerals Management Service (MMS) estimates the quantity of recoverable oil at -- are you ready for this? -- 66.6-115.3 BILLION barrels! Take a middle figure of 85.9 billion barrels and you have more oil than lies under ANWR. Some experts predict the ANWR yield could run as high as27 BILLION BARRELS! The total acreage of ANWR is a whopping 19.6 million acres. And under previously proposed legislation drilling in ANWR was only limited to a 2,000-acre plot of land. That leaves 19.598 million acres for the walruses and polar bears and caribou. Let's put that in greater perspective: Oil exploration would be confined to just 0.01% of the 19.6 million acres. OCS (Outer Continental Shelf, including Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf) ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................
CLIMATE CHANGE PROPOSAL TO COST FLORIDA 58,720 MANUFACTORING JOBS BY 2030.According to The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis Report on the Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade legislation, Florida would lose 58,720 manufacturing jobs in 2030 and Floridians would pay $925 more per year in energy costs should this legislation become law. Across the country, the already hard hit manufacturing sector of our economy would lose millions more jobs. Household energy costs would rise dramatically, and household income would decline. The United States Senate is scheduled to consider this legislation the first week in June. What is cap and trade? In this case, the federal government would impose arbitrary limits on six greenhouse gases, with the primary emphasis on carbon dioxide. In order to cap these emissions, the government would sell permits to power plants, refineries and natural gas producers, which will be passed along in the form of increased energy costs to consumers (much like an energy tax). It will also lead to large transfers of income from people in Florida to special interests in Washington. How much will it cost you? When Lieberman-Warner is fully implemented in Florida, the increase in the average electric bill would be at least 80% more than under current law, and the average natural gas bill increase would be at least 37% over current projections. And, in 2030, gasoline prices would be $5.76 a gallon if Lieberman-Warner becomes law, while only $4.67 under current projections. Moreover, according to the Heritage analysis, the trade-off for the damage Lieberman-Warner would do to the economy is, ". . . very little change in global temperature...perhaps even smaller than the .07 of a degree Celsius drop in temperature that many scientists expected from worldwide compliance with the Kyoto climate change accords." |
