Joseph Knollenberg: “the price of gasoline in my home State of Michigan is currently the highest in the country: still nearly $1.90 for a…”

“the price of gasoline in my home State of Michigan is currently the highest in the country: still nearly $1.90 for a gallon of regular. Yet if $2.00 a gallon is troubling, just consider the impact of implementing the administration's flawed Kyoto Treaty. Tack on at least another 65 cents a gallon and double, double, the energy costs of powering our homes and our factories. Compound this with the loss of as many as 3.2 million American jobs, and we see what this treaty really entails. The fate of the American economy would be placed in the hands of those nations who do not have to comply with the dictates of the treaty but yet are the biggest offenders. Vice President Gore blatantly disregarded unanimous Senate advice in 1997 and volunteered American taxpayers to the Kyoto Protocol. Three years have now passed and still the advice and the consent of the Senate, as mandated by the Constitution, has not been sought on this misguided treaty. We already pay too much for our energy supplies. We cannot afford to further insult the American worker with this damaged and unratified treaty.”