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almost every respect than Senator naeohler 'e a bill panned by the $enate
last year. Unlike that.mieguide? legislation. your committee: '1 a draft
contains provision: to allow greater accede to domestic energy reaourcee
and to create the conditione for private anterprice to rebuild
and enlarge America: 'o a inadequate energy intreetructure. Nearly ae
importantly. the draft doee not contain the chief provi?ion? in the
Daochle bill that would limit energy euppliee and raiae pricea: moat
especially. it does not contain a Renewable Portfolio Standard for
electricity production.

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Because we share your commitment to policies that will promote
continuing abundant auppliee of affordable energy to American coneunere
and orcduccre. we were ouroriaad to find that your committal: ., a draft
containe a climate change title. we believe that this title 1! ill
conoidared and. it enacted in anything like it: form. its effect-
will in tha long run overwhelm the many politiye elementa in the bill. It
would in our create the institutional and legal tramawork and the
political incentivee nee-leery eventually to force Kyoto-style enercy
rationinc on the American people.

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Even more disturbingly to He. it would eat no on thin path without
en?e?inu in a full national debate over it. enormous coneeguencee.
Inetead. including thie climate title in comprehenliue eneroy lecillation
alone to aalume that the debate in ever. even though that debate has never
occurred. It enema to on that before we nettle on the main of
thin climate title. we would iirat have to agree that global warming
alarniam 1a warranted. that there are benefit: al uella to
coat. to thele policiee. and that it in inevitable we are econ going to be
living in carbon-oonetrained world. He quelticn each of there
aeeumotiona.

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i he apacirically call your attention to three main in the
climate title-l} requiring a national atratagy to I: atabilite and over
time reduce net u. E. emileionl o! oreenhcuee caeel: -, plue ennual
reportl: reviving the Clintonwaore hdminietratione ?a a white Houle
climate ore: and bureaucracy: and 3} letting up a program to awurd credit:
for early actiona to reduce 



l! Directing the executive to produce a national etrategy

concedee the global warming debate and pute the u. s. on a dead-end path
to future energy rationing. he the diacradited National 
demon-trataa. annual reportl will be need to promote alarniem and attack
government tor not doing enough. And it the atrategy: ?1 a objective-
were actually implemented. the coetl would be coloelel and the benefit!
oil.

a 3: Ledielatinu Hhite Houee climate czar and office will
inatitutionnlire global warming ae a problem. which it meane that it will
never go away. even after global worming alarmiem hen been diecredited.
Single million agenciel ueually are captured by their cliente. become
lobbyiata tor their and cannot objectively evaluate the coat: or
their policies.

I 3i awarding creditl for early ectione to reduce greenhouee gee
emileione will create a pouerlul big cartel to lobby tor
mandatory caps on Thia ia becauae early action credit: will
not have value until an cap Eorcee energy near: to buy credita.


we would like to be able to tell you that we are doing to be devotion
our time and resource: in the montha ahead to educating the public on the
many punitive elements in your compreheneive energy legislation.
Unfortunately. however. it the bill containe a climate title with there

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