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Lieberman-McCain Bill Would Place Hidden Tait on Consumers

Kyoto Impiementetion Act is Pointless Peiiticai Groadstena'ing

Washington. D.C., Dctober 29., l??il-The Senate is poised this week to debate a hill, 3. l39. sponsored
by Senators Joseph Lieberman and .l elm McCain (ll-AZ} to enact the first?ever mandatory
restrictions on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This proposal would create a
mechanism similar to that called for by the Kyoto Protocol, increasing the price of energy and setting the
stage for even more stringent limits in the future-

"The cap-and-trade approach to rationing energy use would be a hidden tea: on all Americans,? said
Myron Ebell, Director of Global 1Iili'arrning Policy at ?The bill is pointless
political grandstanding and a shameless con game. They assure us that the initial costs will be low, but
hope that we won?t notice how expensive it quickly becomes. The Kyoto Protocol was always a dead?
end approach and now it's dead, and Senators Lieberman and McCain need to get over it and move on to
some o?ter fashionable big government cause-?

Even if enacted, emissions reductions in the United States would have virtually no effect on global
greenhouse gas levels. Large?scale emitters like China and India are increasing energy use rapidly and
have emphatically rejected any limits on their emissions new and in the ?itnre. Any attempt to decrease
emissions by rationing energy in the Li- 3-. although extremely harrn?rl to our economyI would be
overwhelmed in coming decades by emissions increases in the developing world.

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