[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16062]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      AVOID EUROPEAN ENERGY MODEL

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Madam Speaker, this administration and the Democrat 
Congress are pushing us towards European socialism through more 
government control. This week it is the energy economy. We are 
scheduled to consider the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax scheme that will 
cap our growth and tax all of us.
  In 2005, the Europeans implemented the emissions trading scheme, or 
ETS. ETS has increased household energy costs by 16 percent and 
industrial energy costs by 32 percent in just 4 years with no 
measurable effect on greenhouse gases.
  The Heritage Foundation projects the Waxman-Markey impact on America 
will be a 74 percent increase in gasoline prices, a 90 percent increase 
in electricity prices, and at least 850,000 jobs lost every year. The 
energy bill for the average American household will go up over $3,000 
per year. That is exactly what the authors want. President Obama 
recently stated that the only way a cap-and-tax scheme will work is for 
higher energy costs. They have to ``skyrocket.''
  I urge my colleagues to reject this bill that is all economic pain 
and no environmental gain and, instead, join me in supporting the 
American Energy Act that promotes and develops domestic energy sources, 
encourages conservation, and advances renewable technologies while 
pursuing America's competitive edge.

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