Senator says 'global warming liberals' threaten economy

Jim Brown
OneNewsNow.com
February 26, 2007

Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill recently told a panel of world leaders they are ready and eager to join the fight against human-caused climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, one U.S. senator says proponents of the global warming theory have "an obsession" with shutting down the American economy.

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Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman have introduced legislation that would place mandatory caps on carbon-dioxide emissions. However, some Senate Republicans, including Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, are vowing to do everything they can to make sure such a measure never becomes law.

"It's just amazing to me that all these global-warming liberals -- and keep in mind their agenda is just to stop any kind of construction, any kind of electricity generation -- come along and say that global warming is taking place," Inhofe says. "I'm from Oklahoma [and] we've had three of the coldest days in the recorded history of [the state]."

Of course, when that apparent climatologic contradiction is pointed out to the environmentalists, the conservative senator notes, "they'll say, 'Oh, well that's part of global warming because it causes extreme conditions.'"

Inhofe, Senator Kit Bond of Missouri, and other global-warming skeptics in Congress argue that mandatory emissions caps would raise the cost of electricity for poor and middle-class families. Still, he says global-warming proponents are apparently unmoved by this argument and "there's no way in the world we're ever going to be able to stop them from this obsession to take away our ability to run and operate this great machine we call America."

The Oklahoma Republican says he hopes people will understand that the global-warming issue has nothing to do with polar bears, nor with drilling, but rather has to do with economics and the politics of those pushing liberal global-warming "solutions." The real issue at hand, he asserts, "is whether or not they're going to able to stop us from generating electricity to keep America moving."

The agenda of "global-warming liberals," Inhofe contends, is "to stop any kind of construction or electricity generation in the U.S." He believes mandatory emissions caps threaten the U.S. economy and would hurt many of the Americans who can least afford the increased fuel costs that would result.

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