New GOP Energy Plan: No Price Increases Allowed, No Limits For Consumers, Lots & Lots Of Drilling
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Murkowski, the top ranking Republican on the Senate energy committee, argues energy is too often seen as a necessary evil rather than embraced for what it brings. "We like to be comfortable in our temperatures. We like to be able to move around. This is the mark of a successful and an economically healthy world. Where you have energy these are the prosperous areas," she said in an interview.
Her proposal opposes "any policy that would increase the price of energy or limit consumer choice." Its release comes two weeks after President Barack Obama promised in his inaugural address to respond to climate change, casting it as a moral obligation to address the emissions linked to warming of the planet, melting Arctic sea ice and rising sea levels.
Murkowski said Congress is unlikely to embrace climate change bills. Major legislation that would have capped emissions and set up markets to trade pollution credits failed in 2010 and is not likely to be resurrected. "I’m looking at it from the perspective of what’s going to create jobs, what’s going to help the economy," Murkowski said. "A carbon tax or a cap and trade proposal or something that is going to make energy more expensive is not going to help us."
Murkowski herself co-sponsored an attempt in 2007 to impose a cap on carbon emissions, saying at the time that "the permafrost is melting, Arctic ice is disappearing and wildlife habitat is changing." She said Friday the economy is weaker now and emphasized the 2007 proposal had limits on its scope. Murkowski’s blueprint calls for investments in research and development of technologies to lower emissions.
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