Republicans to shut down House select committee on climate and energy

[Dover]

Well I guess we know who paid the 'untracable' big bucks in this last election. And unfortunately they also continue to influence and even write our foreign energy policy.


------

The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which has been chaired by Representative Edward Markey of Malden, is being abolished by incoming Republican leadership.

“I am disappointed that the Republican leadership is not prioritizing energy independence and climate change as important issues to tackle, but that will not stop my efforts to cut carbon pollution and create American clean energy jobs,” said Markey in a statement to the Globe.

Since taking control of the House in the midterm elections on Nov. 2, Republicans have vowed to curb government spending and reduce taxes. Some Republicans contend the committee was tinged by politics and served solely as a launching point for such Democratic proposals as the cap-and-trade program, what they dubbed a national energy tax...cont'd



http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2010/12/republicans_to.html

[4dsc]

1. Energy independence is a ruse.

There's no such a thing as an America that is somehow energy independence and it gripes my ass that anyone actually believes this.

[GliderGuider]

2. That sucking sound you hear is America flushing the world down the toilet.

Fuckers.

[Dover]

Want to know what our current foreign energy policy and the big money behind really wants?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9679338&mesg_id=9679449

[Dover]

3. dupe ...n/t