Industry group's ads target Graham over cap-and-trade

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Industry group's ads target Graham over cap-and-trade
By James Rosen | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Thursday, October 22, 200

WASHINGTON -- A Washington advocacy group with close ties to Big Oil started running ads Thursday on South Carolina radio stations, targeting Sen. Lindsey Graham for supporting taxes on carbon emissions.

The American Energy Alliance, funded in part by oil and natural gas companies, utilities and other energy-industry firms, launched the initiative in response to Graham's recent collaboration with Sen. John Kerry on cap-and-trade legislation.

The group's ad is aimed at listeners of mainly conservative radio talk shows and will run through Oct. 30, Patrick Creighton, its communications director, said Thursday.

"This is going to be more than a radio campaign," Creighton said. "We're going to roll out additional TV and Internet ads in the next few weeks."

Graham, a military lawyer and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and the party's 2004 presidential nominee, wrote an Oct. 11 column in the New York Times.


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1. I firmly believe "Cap and Trade" will cause MORE pollution

What is to prevent Multinational corporations from setting up shop in 3rd world countries, and provide kick backs to corrupt political leaders in order to burn up the carbon credits of the impoverished populace and then move on to the next awaiting 3rd world country to do it all over again.

Reductions are necessary but "Cap and Trade" won't provide them any time in the next 100 - 200 years. Additionally 3rd world countries where the Multinational corporations will set up shop have NO EPA or environmental standards. This will result in factories (just as they are now in China and India) to belch Highly Toxic Pollution into the air and water completely unchecked.

Its a recipe for an Environmental/Economic Disaster