North Dakotans Could End Up Paying $300 – $500 Per Year More In Utility Costs Due To Cap And Trade

Proof • June 29, 2009

Nick Silver at the FiveThirtyEight blog put together a map showing the average increase cost per household of utilities thanks to the proposed cap and trade tax. Not all states are equal when it comes to the cost of cap and trade in terms of increased energy costs, due to some states being more dependent on carbon-heavy sources like coal than others, but almost all the states will get hit with expenses that are $100 or more per year.

There’s more here, but really that map tells the tale doesn’t it? I think this is something the Senators of those dark red states, Senators like Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad from North Dakota, need to hear about. Click here to tell them by email in two easy steps.
And remember, increased energy costs aren’t the only impact a cap and trade tax will have. The cost of everything you buy is going to go up to. If you order a book from Amazon, you’ll be paying part of the carbon tax paid by every company involved in the process from the company that cut down the trees to make the paper to Amazon itself to the delivery company that brings the book to your doorstep.
Obama says the impact of cap and trade will cost the average American no more than the price of a postage stamp per day. He’s pulling our collective legs. Once the impact of the cap and trade carbon tax is felt throughout the economy, the cost to the average American is going to be thousands of dollars per year as noted in studies by the Tax Foundation and MIT.
Believe me folks, we couldn’t afford this tax in the best of times, and certainly not in the middle of a recession. This tax will not only make our day-to-day lives significantly more expensive, but it will drive jobs out of this country as manufacturers and other sorts of industry flee to friendlier regulatory environments.
This would be a mistake.

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http://Array Buzz

Last week it was 500 a month, now its 300-500 a year, at the most. Next week it will be 5-10 bucks a month. Did your lie about it going to cost 6,000 a year not take hold? Have to pull the reins back a little?
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Dorgan will vote against it,Conrad will vote for it.Dorgans running in 2010,Conrad will have a few extra years to hope we forget his vote or spin his shit, or come up with some other great idea he has to save us.These two jerks are just an embarrassment.Neither ever answer E-mails,gonna have to try the damn phones,hope I can control my anger grrrrrrrrr.I fear for this country.

We need to start calling all of us this is a sham.
Buzz

What do you think about those wind mills NOW!!!
2Hotel9

Nav? Your sig says it all, buzzy’s parents should have been sterilized at birth.
Rightwing Conspiracy

On Monday June 22, I drove through numerous NW Iowa and SW Minnesota wind farms. The heat was in the upper 80′s and air conditioners were running hard and guess what? Out of about 75-100 wind generators, two of them were turning. Lots of needed power being generated there. Besides the wind farms would only affect a government caused problem if they worked.
badlands4

Pomeroy doesn’t ever answer my emails, but both Conrad and Dorgan do, they just tend to send typical spin letters, and half the time you can tell that their staff didn’t even read it, becuase they will insert something that makes NO sense to the topic.

I think we are going to have to scrimp big time and look at buying a wood furnace or a wood stove insert for our fireplace, as it doesn’t look like we will be able to afford to use our heater, as the news Friday night said our bills would DOUBLE every month, not a postage stamp per day(I am part of a rural co-op)
Headward

Obama says the impact of cap and trade will cost the average American no more than the price of a postage stamp per day.

I can just hear about how stamps are going to $10 a stamp.

Whatever happened to Barry’s promise about no tax increases for people who make under $250K?
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

The Marines have an expression: The Big Green Weenie which means that you have gotten screwed by the pogues in USMC admin. I see this map and it seems to have taken on a whole new meaning.

How is that Flori-dahhhhh gets off so lightly?
jimmypop

again…. barry is trying his best to raise EVERYONES taxes. got it.
navtechie

Last week it was 500 a month, now its 300-500 a year, at the most. Next week it will be 5-10 bucks a month. Did your lie about it going to cost 6,000 a year not take hold? Have to pull the reins back a little?

Hey, buzzimadouchebag:

The $500 a year is for utilities ONLY.

If you want to split hairs, fine, we can get into the increased cost to ship, produce, manufacture and create the goods we all buy. Which in turn will all cost us more to purchase….lets say….1000-6000 a year more in general costs to our basic needs?

fuck off douchebag, you’re as dumb as Dino and that isn’t saying much.
sayanything-6955

Dorgan will vote against it,Conrad will vote for it.Dorgans running in 2010,Conrad will have a few extra years to hope we forget his vote or spin his shit, or come up with some other great idea he has to save us.These two jerks are just an embarrassment.Neither ever answer E-mails,gonna have to try the damn phones,hope I can control my anger grrrrrrrrr.I fear for this country.

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