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I wrote my Senator, John McCain the other day to express my thoughts on the so-called energy bill that the House passed and will be coming to the Senate.  I told him that I expected him not to support it.  I have pasted the content of his letter below for you to read.  He says in it that he doesn’t support Obama’s vision, but he has his own vision of cap and tax that he would support.  I’m very disappointed in Sen. McCain.  After his email, I have pasted my response to him.

Dear :

 Thank you for contacting me regarding climate change. I appreciate knowing your thoughts on this issue.

 According to extensive international scientific studies, including reports by the National Academy of Sciences and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, dramatic increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing global temperatures to rise. Human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels, are the primary source of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in our atmosphere.

 As Americans, we can no longer ignore our significant contribution to this foremost environmental threat. The United States must act responsibly to address this issue and work to preserve the global environment for future generations. It is also essential that we maintain our leadership role as the world moves toward an international market for greenhouse gas reductions.

 Climate change legislation has been the subject of Senate debate for a number of years. As you may know, Senator Lieberman and I have been working to pass legislation to address this critical issue since 2003. Most recently, in January 2007 Senator Lieberman and I introduced S. 280, the Climate Change Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007. This bill placed a limit on the amount of greenhouse gases companies could emit and established a market-based trading program. The trading system proposed under S. 280 allowed companies to buy or sell emissions units. A company that reached the required levels in certain emissions would have been able to trade emissions “credits” with a company was struggling to meet emissions requirements. Without a market-based greenhouse gas emissions program, it would be increasingly difficult for U.S. companies to operate abroad and to maintain their position as leaders in the global marketplace.

 Earlier this year, President Obama released his budget plan, which relies upon raising nearly $650 billion dollars of revenues from a climate credits auction. This large revenue producing mechanism was not the cap-and-trade system I had envisioned. The President’s proposal of auctioning one hundred percent of the carbon credits is bad economic policy that would cost businesses billions of dollars and allow for little to no transition into a low carbon system.

 More recently, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. While I still believe that climate change is a critical issue that must be addressed, some significant changes will have to be made to this legislation before I can support passage of similar in the Senate. However, please be assured that I will keep your views in mind as I work together with my fellow Senators and the Administration to negotiate a successful method of addressing this critical issue

 Thank you again for sharing your views. Please feel free to contact me regarding this or any other matter of importance to you.

 Sincerely,

 John McCain

United States Senator

 JM/cd

And my response……

 

 

United State Senate

Washington, DC

 

Senator McCain,

It disappoints me greatly to hear that you have bought into the farce that is global warming. In fact, it’s not called global warming anymore. Now it’s climate change. The climate change that happens on the planet is a naturally occurring phenomenon. More and more scientists are finally standing up to the bullying that government and even their own colleagues have been subjecting on them to come forward and show strong support and evidence that global warming/climate change is not caused nor impacted by humans. It is occurring naturally. The earth goes through cycles as a matter of course.

Even though you buy into the global warming farce, I’m also very disappointed to hear that you believe in a cap and tax system. How can you agree with this concept as it will push a regressive tax on each and every citizen of this great nation? And how can you support this when most of your constituents don’t?

Senator, you have proven to me that you are not a true conservative. From global warming to amnesty for illegal aliens, you are letting conservatives in your state, nay, the nation down. On the illegal alien issues, you only started saying secure the borders first when your constituents went after you for trying to provide amnesty first.

Unfortunately, unless you make a marked change in your stands on issues, I will not be able to support you anymore.

I don’t expect I’ll get a response to this email. It will be a pleasant surprise if I do.

Respectfully,