Washington, DC - Today the American Council for Affordable and Reliable Energy (ACARE) posted four billboards reminding voters that while Congressman Russ Carnahan (D-MO) voted yes on Cap and Trade, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has not.  

It is ACARE's goal to defeat Cap and Trade because increased energy costs will be a burden to American families, drive American jobs to China, India and Mexico and grant massive subsidies to select energy interests.  Cap and Trade, as a political issue, has become as contentious as health care reform.  Many House members have come to regret their vote last year on the Cap and Trade legislation and ACARE seeks to educate the public before the Senate acts.  Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has introduced a resolution of disapproval to keep the EPA from moving forward on its own while Congress continues to deliberate. There is now an opportunity to support the Murkowski Resolution which would instruct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to not attempt to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act, as it was not designed to address something as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.  

"Cap and Trade is bad for America, and we can't let EPA bureaucrats accomplish through regulation what they can't pass as legislation.  If that isn't enough to make Senators do the right thing, ACARE will help remind them that voting against their constituents' interests is going to be politically painful.  ACARE plans more billboards in at least 6 states and we hope Senator McCaskill gets the message," said Mike Carey, President of ACARE.

The billboard artwork now posted across MO-3 may be seen here:
http://www.acarenow.org/billboards/missouri.asp

The American Council for Affordable and Reliable Energy advocates public policies on energy that will fuel our high standard of living, protect a clean environment and serve as bridge to the future of energy.  These public policies should not arbitrarily or unfairly discriminate among energy sources and should be based on sound science and cost-effective and growth-promoting government regulation.

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