The American Spectator

home
ADVERTISEMENT
Print Email
Text Size

The Spectacle Blog

Demonizing From DC

That’s what an Arkansas state legislator accused some in Congress of doing today in testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

That’s what an Arkansas state legislator accused some in Congress of doing today in testimony before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee:

But Republican Gov. John Hoeven of North Dakota said the legislation under consideration would cause job losses in his oil-producing state. The prospect of a climate change bill already has halted new technologies to harvest oil and natural gas, Hoeven said.

He was joined by Arkansas state Rep. John Lowery, a Democrat and the owner of Lowery Oil Co., who said that while the bill may create green jobs for the West Coast and Northeast, it would harm middle America.

“It might be popular for some in Washington to demonize oil and gas, fertilizer and chemical companies, and farmers,” Lowery said, “but where I come from, they are an integral part of our communities.”

Arkansas was the site of perhaps the greatest state-level blowback against cap-and-tax to date.

topics:
Global Warming, Cap and Trade

View all comments (9) |

Richard Baker| 7.22.09 @ 12:31AM

The Restoration begins in the Dakotas.

Margaret | 8.4.09 @ 11:07AM

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Margaret

http://howtomakecompost.info

Related Blog Posts

More Blog Posts by Paul Chesser

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/07/21/demonizing-from-dc

ADVERTISEMENT

SPONSORED LINKS

FLASHBACK TO: 1995

Clip of the Day

Most Popular Articles

The IRS Immigration Fraud Scandal

Jeffrey Lord | 6.18.13

Foreign Policy as Farce

Jed Babbin | 6.17.13

The Biggest Fool of All

Doug Bandow | 6.17.13

Can Liturgical Music Be Saved?

Patrick O'Hannigan | 6.17.13

Revenge of the Fruitcakes

Peter Hitchens | 6.17.13

Obama's Climate of Intimidation

Matthew Sheffield | 6.18.13

The Mole in Don Draper

James Bowman | 6.17.13

Whither Suburbia?

Steven Greenhut | 6.18.13

ADVERTISEMENT