Reader upset with national energy proposal

To the Editor:

I have very few times been so abjectly disappointed as I was Friday, June 25, after learning Congressman Baron Hill voted yes to HR 2459, the controversial cap and trade bill.

I watched the debate on C-Span and was quite interested when Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) picked out several pages of this 1,100-page package as reasons to vote no. The wording had so much gibberish and unintelligible wording it would take a bevy of lawyers to make sense of it.

Did Rep. Hill or any others have time to study this? Did anyone find out who authored it?

I know Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sponsored it but neither of them are smart enough to write out something as outrageous as that.

Did you know 97 percent of Indiana's electrical power is generated by coal?

Did you know this bill is very likely if passed in Senate to raise our electrical bills as much as 50 percent? Can we afford that?

Was Rep. Hill considering the economic impact this would have on fellow Hoosiers?

This whole global warming issue is so totally blown out of proportion for one reason - to extort more money from the American public.

We Hoosiers all need to get on the phone and write letters (no petitions) to Senators Lugar and Bayh and tell them to vote no on this very dangerous legislation.

Bill Kendall
Seymour, Ind.