Obama has admitted a cap and trade plan would cause electricity bills to "skyrocket."
"For the last decade the climate has been cooling."
If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."
About 750,000 people die in China each year from auto emissions.
"Not only is there no scientific evidence that CO2 is a pollutant, higher CO2 concentrations actually help ecosystems support more plant and animal life."
The cap-and-trade bill will mean "2 million jobs lost."
"There's no evidence anywhere that offshore drilling has hurt tourism in any area where it has been allowed."
"The truth is any oil that would be drilled could be sent to any other country in the world, reducing our use of foreign oil not by one single drop."
Gas will reach $4 a gallon under a cap-and-trade plan.
The Obama administration's cap-and-trade plan would create "a $1,761 yearly energy tax."
"Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans."
"Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013."
If you log into the government's Cash for Clunkers Web site (cars.gov) from your home computer, the government can "seize all of your personal and private" information, and track your computer activity.
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so."
On a cap-and-trade plan.
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
On the day the House voted on the climate change bill, "there was not even a copy of the bill in the well of the House, which is standard. It wasn't even written."
"Californians consume 40 percent less energy per person than the national average"
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