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SUBJECT:: FW: Joint letter on climate title to Chairman Pete Domenici

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Myron Ebell <mebell~cei.org>

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To: Myron Ebell <mebell~cei.org>

cc:Subject: FW: Joint letter on climate title to Chairman Pete Domenici

> > «<Joint letter on climate title to Domenici, final version, 4-03.doc>>

>Washington, D. C.

> 4th April 2003

> The Honorable Mr. Pete Domenici

> Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

> United States Senate

> Washington, D. C. 20510

> Via fax and e-mail

> Dear Chairman Domenici:

> The undersigned organizations write to share our views on the climate

title in the draft comprehensive energy legislation prepared by your

committee> 1> s staff. The draft bill in our view is better in almost

every respect than Senator Daschle> 1> s bill passed by the Senate last

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year. unlike that misguided legislation, your committee> 1> s draftcontains provisions to allow greater access to domestic energy resourcesand to create the conditions necessary for private enterprise to rebuildand enlarge America> '> s inadequate energy infrastructure. Nearly asimportantly, the draft does not contain the chief provisions in theDaschle bill that would limit energy supplies and raise prices; mostespecially, it does not contain a Renewable Portfolio Standard forelectricity production.

> Because we share your commitment to policies that will promotecontinuing abundant supplies of affordable energy to American consumersand producers, we were surprised to find that your committee> '> s draftcontains a climate change title. We believe that this title is illconsidered and, if enacted in anything like its present form, its effectswill in the long run overwhelm the many positive elements in the bill. Itwould in our view create the institutional and legal framework and thepolitical incentives necessary eventually to force Kyoto-style energyrationing on the American people.

> Even more disturbingly to us, it would set us on this path withoutengaging in a full national debate over its enormous consequences.Instead, including this climate title in comprehensive energy legislationseems to assume that the debate is over, even though that debate has neveroccurred. It seems to us that before we settle on the main provisions ofthis climate title, we would first have to agree that global warmingalarmism is scientifically warranted, that there are benefits as wells ascosts to these policies, and that it is inevitable we are soon going to beliving in a carbon-constrained world. We question each of theseassumptions.

> We specifically call your attention to three main provisions in theclimate title-1) requiring a national strategy to > '1> stabilize and overtime reduce net U. S. emissions of greenhouse gases> "1> plus annualreports; 2) reviving the Clinton-Gore Administration> '> s White Houseclimate czar and bureaucracy; and 3) setting up a program to award creditsfor early actions to reduce emissions.

> 1) Directing the executive to produce a national strategy concedes theglobal warming debate and puts the U. S. on a dead-end path to futureenergy rationing. As the discredited National Assessment demonstrates,annual reports will be used to promote alarmism and attack government fornot doing enough. And if the strategy> '> s objectives were actuallyimplemented, the costs would be colossal and the benefits nil.> 2) Legislating a White House climate czar and office willinstitutionalize global warming as a problem, which it means that it willnever go away, even after global warming alarmism has been discredited.Single mission agencies usually are captured by their clients, becomelobbyists for their issue, and cannot objectively evaluate the costs oftheir policies.> 3) Awarding credits for early actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissionswill create a powerful big business cartel to lobby for mandatory caps onemissions. This is because early action credits will not have value untilan emissions cap forces energy users to buy credits.

> We would like to be able to tell you that we are going to be devotingour time and resources in the months ahead to educating the public on themany positive elements in your comprehensive energy legislation. Unfo>rtunately, however, if the bill contains a climate title with these threeprovisions from the draft, then we fear that our time and resources willinstead be diverted to exposing the shortcomings of that objectionable

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concoction. Thank you for your attention to our concerns.

> Sincerely,

• Fred Smith, President• and Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming Policy• Competitive Enterprise Institute

• Paul M. Weyrich, National Chairman• Coalitions for America

• Grover Norquist, President• Americans for Tax Reform

• Malcolm Wallop, Chairman• Frontiers of Freedom

> David A. Keene, Chairman> American Conservative Union

> Paul Gessing, Director of Government Affairs> National Taxpayers Union

• James P. Backlin, Director of Legislative Affairs• Christian Coalition of America

• Amy Ridenour, President• National Center for Public Policy Research

> Darrell McKigney, President> Small Business Survival Committee

> Richard Lessner, Executive Director> American Renewal

• Tom DeWeese, President• American Policy Center F> Chuck Muth, President> Citizen Outreach

> Steven Milloy, President> Citizens for the Integrity of Science

• Ronald Pearson, President• Council for America

> Kevin L. Kearns, President> U. S. Business and Industry Council

> Dennis Avery, Director> Center for Global Food Issues, Hudson Institute

• Jim Boulet, Jr., Executive Director• English First

> Joan L. Hueter, President> American Council for Immigration Reform

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> Cc: Members of the Committee

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