HELP PASS A NATIONAL ENERGY PLAN
Prevent Natural Gas Shortages, Protect Business and Industry

07/17/2003

It is critical that United States Congress adopt sound national energy legislation, but the Senate is currently debating proposed amendments to the energy plan that will increase demand and the cost of our nation's already strained natural gas supply and threatened serious power shortages. (Click here to review the amendments)

We need an effective national energy plan that will increase the use of abundant domestic energy sources, enhance energy conservation and efficiency, improve energy infrastructure, and promote advanced energy technologies. These harmful amendments, though, will hurt the economy, push up energy prices, and threaten energy supplies.

Contact your senators and ask them to VOTE NO on:

• mandatory federal regulation of greenhouse gases or carbon dioxide emissions and reporting
• mandatory use of renewable energy sources to generate electricity, the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS)

The National Grange's policy supports the expansion of "voluntary" efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions and greater (not mandatory) use of natural resources, especially those that are renewable and non-polluting. (Click here to review our conservation policy)

As the Senate considers S. 14, the Energy Policy Act of 2003 (Click here to review the bill) it must reject these amendments that restrict energy supplies, increase energy costs, and threaten American jobs and the economy. The amendments take various forms and their sponsors describe them in seemingly favorable terms, but ultimately they will all have common, unacceptable consequences.

If you have any questions or comments please contact Legislative Research Analyst Chil-Sook Hwang by fax: 202-347-1091 or by phone: 1-888-4GRANGE, ext 109. Thank you for your grassroots participation in the National Grange Legislative program.

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