Texas leader walks citizens through important "cap and trade" debate and what it means to you

Commissioner Michael Williams (R-TX) has begun a multi-part series on the “cap and trade” legislation making its way through Congress.



Part 1: http://www.williamsfortexas.com/posts/14



Each day this week, Commissioner Williams will post the next part of the series. The goal is to educate what “cap and trade” is and expose it for what it truly is: a national energy tax that will harm all Texans and Americans.



The education portion is important. In May of this year, Rasmussen reported the following findings:

“Given a choice of three options, just 24% of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29%) believe the proposal has something to do with regulating Wall Street while 17% think the term applies to health care reform. A plurality (30%) have no idea.”



Subsequent topics will include:

• Waiting to exhale: the EPA endangerment finding

• Cap and trade 101

• All cap and trade programs are not created equal

• The disproportionate adverse impact CO2 cap and trade will have on Texas

• It’s worthless without China

• How you can help!