Kit Bond (R-MO) is worried about … wait for it … gas prices

BEST DELAYER SOUNDBITE OF THE DAY: “Caps without technology are a $6.7 trillion tax increase.”

“I am very, very concerned about raising energy prices on … businesses, truckers, farmers.”

“Do we really want to vote to make this misery much worse.”

I talked to scientists and they won’t be ready for 15 to 20 years to solve the problem.

The impossible mandates of Lieberman-Warner will be a massive tax increase without technology. It’s cap-and-tax.

Missouri will lose 67,000 jobs.
Energy costs will be 153% higher. Gasoline prices will be 140% higher.

The pain will be focused primarily on the manufacturing-job heavy midwest and South.

It will have no measurable impact on global temperatures — if China and India don’t do anything.

There is so much we can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with more nuclear power.

We need to do something about reprocessing spent fuel.

We need to expand coal to liquid.