Can't Wait Any Longer for Energy Bill

Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, thank you for the new American Power Act, I commend your efforts to attempt to pass a comprehensive environmental and energy bill.

For all the other Senators out there that are marking this bill as a "job-killer," you should probably take in the facts and not just Rush Limbaugh's words.

According to Greenwire and the New York Times, "[The] Senate climate legislation unveiled last [month] would spark a decade of multibillion-dollar investments to help overhaul how the nation produces and consumes energy, adding 200,000 jobs per year in the construction of new power plants and through greater demand for biofuels."

This study wasn't done by the Democratic National Committee or Al Gore's Alliance for Climate protection, instead it was done by the non-partisan Peterson Institute for International Economics, and you can read the 18-page study here.

The bill would prompt over $40 billion to be invested in nuclear energy and renewable energies.

I contacted Sen. Scott Brown who has said he is opposed to the bill and when I wrote him I told him the results of the report and his response was that he won't support a bill that could cost jobs.

First of all, let's pay attention to facts, not what you've planned to say ahead of time to any inquiry about the environment and energy.

Second of all, the results show the outcome of passing this bill is plain and simple, new jobs, cleaner energy.

This oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is proof that we cannot wait any longer for a comprehensive energy and environmental bill and isn't proof that we need to drill in other places, sorry Sarah Palin.

It's time to help our economy and it's time to help out our environment.

Maybe when people start paying attention to facts and actually helping the American people instead of playing politics, our economy will actually get somewhere and we won't leave our environment in ruins.