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* By George Breithaupt
* September 3, 2009
MOUNT VERNON --- The American Energy Express rolled into Mount Vernon on
Wednesday afternoon to hold a rally on Public Square for a workable
energy policy. Sponsored by the American Energy Alliance, the group
describes itself as a nonpartisan, not-for-profit grassroots advocacy
group that has embarked on a monthlong bus tour to educate working
families, retirees, small-business owners --- essentially, every
American who uses energy --- on the cap-and-trade bill. The group sees
cap-and-trade not as a solution to global warming, but as a tax on every
family in the United States.
Speaking at the rally was Karen Wright, president and chief executive
officer of Ariel Corp.
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"Cap-and-trade is a bill that was called Waxman-Markey," she said.
"Essentially what it does is put a tax --- or a trade, which is really a
tax --- on carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide is what you exhale
when you breathe and it's the stuff of life, so there's a lot of it
around. Most things have some sort of carbon dioxide associated with them."
The theory behind global warming, she said, is the Earth is warming
because of human-generated carbon dioxide.
"There may or may not be a correlation there. The idea [of
cap-and-trade] is that you put a cap, or a lid, on how much carbon
dioxide emissions you can have from your house, from your business, from
your car, anything that has carbon dioxide coming out of it. ...
Somebody somewhere in the government is going to decide how much you are
personally allowed and how much that business is allowed and how much
that utility is allowed. And then they are going to put a price tag on
that, and say, 'You are only allowed this much, but if you need more
than that --- if your factory uses more electricity, or natural gas, or
whatever --- you are going to have to buy credits from somebody else who
has some to sell."
Wright said this has been going on in Europe under the name of carbon
trading. She said it hasn't had any effect whatsoever on the temperature
of the Earth.
"But in effect, what it does, is make energy more expensive," she said.
"Energy is the base of the economy. So what you are doing is you are
putting a tax on everything. If you think about it, food, clothing and
shelter, which are the most basic needs of everybody, are all driven by
energy."
There is hardly anything which doesn't use electricity or some form of
energy, she said, including solar and windmill energy sources, because
the solar panels and windmills themselves have to be manufactured somewhere.
"And guess what?" she asked. "They use energy in some form. So you would
be taxing everything."
The end result, she said, is that everything across the entire economy
would become more expensive.
The manufacturing segment of the economy would be paying more of the
carbon tax because those companies are making goods bought by consumers.
"So what you are going to do," she said, "is you are going to shove
American manufacturing elsewhere, to some other country that doesn't
have a punitive tax on virtually everything, to get a result that is
still theoretical."
The result in 40 years if this bill passes, said Wright, is that it will
put an enormous tax on the entire economy, and will reduce the Earth's
temperature by 1/10th of a degree.
"How is that remotely going to make a difference?" she asked.
The rally began with AEA President Thomas Pyle welcoming the crowd and
thanking Mount Vernon for letting the group hold the rally on Public Square.
"We're out here in Mount Vernon as part of a 25-day bus tour to educate
folks from around the Ohio area and other states about the impact of the
national energy tax. That's the cap-and-trade bill," he said.
"Proponents called it a cap-and-trade-bill, but we call it a national
energy tax that will cap our prosperity and trade away our freedom.
"It has two measurable outcomes," he continued. "One is to increase the
price of the 85 percent of the energy that we use to fuel our cars, heat
our homes and run our businesses. Undoubtedly that will lead to
unemployment and job losses in the manufacturing sector and the energy
sector and a whole host of sectors."
The AEA Tour is headed next to West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
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