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If HR 2454, the “cap and trade” bill, becomes law, it will be a world disaster. The ability to harness energy is the difference between advanced and backward cultures.

New World civilizations were conquered by the Europeans primarily because they never discovered how to utilize energy sources. No native tribe in all America even discovered the principle of the wheel. Our world did not develop markedly until the Industrial Revolution, when we learned to harness vast energy sources, especially to produce electricity.

We are about to embark on a course from which there will be no turning back. Western cultures are the more advanced simply because we have cheap and abundant electrical energy. Our advanced cultures permit us to pollute less, while millions of people in countries without adequate energy have no sanitary facilities or running water.

Man is not the chief cause of global warming. And even if he were the forced reduction of energy use will spell the beginning of the end for us, and our ability to be a help to the rest of the world.

Jim Hollingsworth

Coeur d’Alene



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