Washington, DC ─ The newly released Kerry-Boxer climate bill amounts to little more than a bait-and-switch energy scam that will cripple America, said the newly formed American Council for Affordable and Reliable Energy (ACARE).
 
"Kerry-Boxer purports to embrace so-called "clean coal" and nuclear power as solutions to America's energy and environmental needs, but that apparent embrace is just a ruse to get Americans to sign-on to what can only be described as national economic suicide," said ACARE executive director Mike Carey.
 
"Sens. Kerry and Boxer and the green extremists that support them have no intention of promoting the use of coal and nuclear power, said Carey. "Kerry-Boxer is a classic bait-and-switch scam."
 
Carey formed ACARE to fight for the energy supplies that America needs to maintain its unparalleled social and economic advancement. He is also the president of the Ohio coal Association.
 
"We need coal, natural gas, nuclear power, oil, and renewable and alternative energy sources ─ whatever works that makes sense," Carey observed.  "We believe that the availability of these diverse sources of energy should be based on free market forces rather than government mandates and preferences, taxpayer subsidies, and government-sanctioned consumer gouging," he added.
 
ACARE is preparing an analysis to be released next week that will more fully explain the rank insincerity and deception of Kerry-Boxer.
 
"Our paper will show that Kerry-Boxer's policies, promises and guarantees are as empty as they are physically and economically impossible," Carey said.

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