Cap and Trade

Fresno Chamber Position: OPPOSE

When your Senators return from summer vacation next week, health care isn't the only contentious issue they'll have to address.

They will also consider the so-called "Cap-and-Trade" bill - a deeply flawed measure that will create a new energy tax on every household in America.

The House of Representatives has already passed this bill, although very narrowly, before they recessed for the summer. We must make our voices heard as the debate now shifts to the United States Senate.

This tax will do little or nothing to actually reduce global greenhouse gases - but it will raise energy prices, balloon the EPA's bureaucracy, and threaten American jobs.

Instead of passing this deeply flawed bill, the Senate should start from scratch and focus on helping - and not destroying - American jobs and our economy, by promoting new energies and technologies.
 

Contact Kerri Ginis, the Chamber's Government Affairs Manager for more information at (559) 495-4818 or kginis@fresnochamber.com