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Aff – No I/L EconReform destroys economic recovery – forces US to rely on undeveloped and expensive energy sources Holler 10(Dan, Senate Relations Deputy for The Heritage Foundation, “The Senate’s Bait-and-Switch on Cap-and-Trade” The Heritage Foundation April 21)AQB In other words, the Senate plans to force sweeping, expensive, job-destroying changes to America’s energy policy in much the same way they forced ObamaCare upon unwilling Americans. Next week, Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) plan to unveil their plan aimed at combating global warming, an issue that Americans rank as the country’s least pressing priority. With gas prices already surpassing $3 per gallon in some locations, Americans will have little appetite for another energy tax proposal. Unfortunately, liberal policymakers will not hesitate to move forward with unpopular and economically harmful policies – see ObamaCare. Would liberals dare move forward on Kerry-Graham-Lieberman, which may include a sector-by-sector (i.e., preferential industry treatment) cap-and-trade scheme and a hidden gas tax? Probably not, but they are positioning themselves to move swiftly on an equally destructive and innocuous sounding renewable electricity standard (RES). How will this happen? After Kerry, Graham and Lieberman unveil their plan, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will begin working behind closed doors to craft a proposal he believes can win the support of 60 Senators. As part of that effort, he will jettison the cap-and-trade and gas tax provisions proposed by the trio of Senators. In its place, he will insert the RES approved by the Senate Energy Committee last year. And, as with ObamaCare, a lot of goodies will be doled out to special interests. If Reid decides to bring a bill to the floor in June, he will argue the absence of cap-and-trade and a gas tax makes it worthy of broad-based support. The media may embrace that logic, but it should not fool Americans who are concerned about jobs and the economy. An RES will mandate the use of inefficient, expensive and unproven energy sources. That combination will weaken the economy, resulting in less jobs and lower standards of living. Americans should make no distinction between cap-and-trade, energy taxes or an RES. Granting the government a more prominent, powerful role in selecting our energy sources will guarantee energy that is more expensive and less consumer choice in the future. Backroom deals. Less consumer choice. More expensive. Sounds a lot like ObamaCare. Energy reform kills more than 5,000,000 jobs by 2050. Prandoni 6/1/10(Christopher, ATR(American Tax Reform) “Kerry-Lieberman Energy Bill Will Kill 522,000 Jobs and Reduce GDP by $39 Billion”)AQB After overhauling America’s healthcare industry, Democrats have returned to their favorite, possibly even more divisive, prerogative -- energy policy. Unfortunately for Democrats who saw the House-passed Cap-and-Trade stall in the Senate last year, Kerry-Lieberman includes many of the same problematic ramifications: job loss, GDP reduction, and less disposable income. Americans for Tax Reform sent out the following release outlining these negative economic effects: The Kerry-Lieberman American Power Act is an attempt by the Obama Administration to put a stranglehold on the economy by unnecessarily inflating the price of energy and taxing American families. This butchering of the free market will cause severe negative effects for the economy. A study performed by Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C on behalf of the Institute for Energy Research provides figures which illustrate this point: 522,000 Increase in unemployment in 2015 5,000,000 Jobs lost by 2050 $1,042 Cost to households annually $125 billion Over economic loss each year 75 percent Seniors that would forfeit 2.3 percent of their income 5.8 percent Income forfeited for those making less than $10,000/yr 0.9 percent Amount of cash income those making $150,000/yr would be taxed $1,174/yr Increase in household bills for Northeast residents $987/yr Annual increase households in the South would face 14 percent Increase in petroleum prices to consumers 12 percent Electricity and utility increase families will bare $39 billion Reduction in GDP by 2015 $384 billion 2050 total loss in GDP 119,000 Job losses to the petroleum industry 81,400 Natural gas and electric utility job losses 49,7000 Chemical product industry job losses. Aff – No I/L EnvironmentReform fails to solve the environment – No reliable transition energy. Stallman 9(Bob, President of The American Farm Bureau Federation, Letter to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works)AQB However, the second essential element is lacking in both of the bills. There is little in either bill that would provide an alternative source of energy to the fossil fuels that will be lost. Americans are being asked to forego the use of coal, of which the United States has tremendous reserves. yet we are being offered nothing in its place. Each of the potential replacement sources of energy has significant problems and issues, and none of these issues is addressed in the bills. Energy experts indicate, and advocates of cap-and-trade acknowledge, that renewable sources of energy are not sufficiently available to "plug this hole." These energy sources are in their relative infancy. In fact, there are such significant issues with regard to siting and transmission of these sources that they may do little more than be able to meet the increase in energy demand of our nation for several years. There have been well-publicized objections to the siting of wind turbines in certain areas. More recently, we have seen stories of conflicts between wind turbines and the impact on endangered species, thus underscoring the competing interests between energy production and natural resource protection. There seems little prospect that these sources of power can actually replace fossil fuels. In the case of wind power, for instance, there is general recognition that it does not have the capacity to replace base load power on the grid due to its intermittent nature. 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