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Message From: Sent: To: Subject: Myron Ebell [Myron.Ebell@cei.org] 7/18/2018 10:16:45 PM Myron Ebell [Myron.Ebell@cei.org] Cooler Heads Coalition action alert on House vote on anti-carbon tax resolution, HConRes 119 The House is scheduled to vote on H. Con. Res. 119 tomorrow. CEI supports the Scalise/WcKinley anti-carbon tax resolution, H.Con.Res 119, Read the coalition letter signed by 41 free-market groups here, Director of CEFs Center for Energy and Environment Myron Ebeil said the foilowing about the vote: "Carbon taxes are not a solution to anything except increasing government revenues and control over people. Carbon taxes will raise the cost of electricity, motor fuels, airfares, manufactured products, transporting freight, food, and anything else that uses energy. Nearly every proposed carbon tax proposal includes an automatic escalator, which means even if the tax starts small it will go up every year--ever increasing tax revenues without having to vote for them. "Carbon taxes remain political poison around the world. Last month, in Ontario, Canada, the ruling Liberal Party after 15 years in office was overwhelmingly defeated by the Progressive Conservatives. New Premier Doug Ford's top campaign promise was to stop the carbon tax in parliament." CEI Senior Fellow Mario Lewis also commented on the vote: "Policymakers need to remember that affordable energy is vital to the growth and competitiveness of the U.S. economy, and the only way a carbon tax `works' is by making our most plentiful and reliable energy sources more costly. Since taxes have the power to destroy, a carbon tax has the unique potential to bankrupt the coal oil, and natural gas industries, which supply 78 percent of all the energy Americans consume. "Even a `revenue-neutral' carbon fax does not mean it would be economicallyharmless. It would be short-sighted to believe that Washington would enact something as controversial and unpopular as a new tax that would not bring in federal revenues." Read more from Mario Lewis: "Carbon Tax: Political Poison for the Conservative Movement." Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00059358-00001 Read the op-ed by Paul Blair of Americans for Tax Reform in the Washington Examiner at https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/stop-trvinq-to-make-thecarbon~tax~a~fhinq. Myron Ebell Director, Center for Energy and Environment Competitive Enterprise Institute 1310 L Street, N. W., Seventh Floor Washington, DC 20005, USA TTE-eemll mdaiiorl:ebciMlte:jy..ron.EEhxe .M6cei.org Stop continental drift! Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00059358-00002