It is a little bit laughable when people say we want to do something about dependence on the Middle East to run this country called America.
We cannot lessen our dependence on foreign oil through taxes, mandates and bureaucracy.
consumers would pay almost $54 billion more annually for gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and other petroleum products.
Costs matter. We should be looking for the cheap, easy way to do this, not for the hard, expensive way to do it.
As to the fact that it does not cost anything, well somebody is going to be paying up to $100 billion a year.
Do you really think, in this Washington environment, that these things are going to rebated back? I think probably not.
If we enact cap-and-trade legislation, fuel prices will rise, and more jobs in the trucking sector will be lost.
Supporters of cap-and-trade say it is all worth it because their policy would help break our dependence on foreign oil.
We want to expand all domestic production, all forms of energy.
this would translate into an increase of 20 cents per gallon of gasoline for American consumers.
Whatever the solution, we can't lessen our dependence on foreign oil through taxes, mandates, and bureaucracy.