Young Guns, by Rep. Paul Ryan, Rep. Eric Cantor & Rep. Kevin McCarthy: on Energy & Oil


Eric Cantor: Cap-and-trade is a national energy tax

We differed--radically--from the Democrats in charge of Washington when it came to energy and the environment. Their cap-and-trade bill has rightly been called a cap-and-tax bill. It would essentially amount to a national energy tax that would slam small businesses with higher energy bills and put more pressure on already struggling middle-class American families. The best thing a nation can do for its environment is to generate wealth and prosperity.

There's a better way to protect our jobs and protect our environment--it's offering incentives to develop new energy technologies, not penalties for heating your home and operating your business. We need to protect our national security by developing AMERICAN sources of energy like our clean natural gas and our abundant coal from shale. And we need to offer incentives for our companies to develop the alternative energy we need to make us energy independent.

Source: Young Guns, by Reps. Ryan, Cantor & McCarthy, p. 60-61 Sep 14, 2010

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    by Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy.
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