What Do You Think Of My Senators Response To My Letter Opposing Cap And Trade?
Posted by IT CommentatorSep 15
The first thing I notice is she seems to support it but avoids saying straight up yes or no.
Thank you for contacting me about climate change and energy legislation. Your comments are important to me and I appreciate your taking the time to share them.
We need a bold, comprehensive energy strategy that reduces our dependence on foreign oil, protects our national security, and reduces our carbon emissions. Such a strategy should include increased offshore drilling and the development of new biofuels and other homegrown energy resources like hydro, geothermal and wind power. Moreover, it should include increased oil refining capacity, new coal technologies, safe nuclear power, and increased research and development into long-term energy solutions that will eliminate carbon emissions. As we move forward with energy and climate change legislation, this comprehensive, balanced approach will be key.
In the short term, I am taking aim at financial speculators who have artificially inflated oil prices. The oil markets need a cop on the beat to return some order and fairness to the market. That is why I cosponsored and voted for both speculation bills that came to the Senate floor last summer (S. 3044 and S. 3268), which aimed to increase transparency and accountability in our energy markets by closing loopholes that currently allow energy traders to evade government oversight.
I am also a strong supporter of developing more fuel-efficient vehicles, as well as homegrown biofuels that benefit the farmers and workers of the Midwest instead of the oil cartels of the Middle East. In June 2008, I was pleased that the President signed the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008, which included a provision that I authored to help lay the groundwork for developing the next generation of biofuels. The Farm-to-Fuel portion of the bill will support the transition of ethanol fuel to cellulosic sources such as switchgrass and prairie grass, and it will also promote the development of biomass energy sources from waste like timber residue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to contact me. One of the most important parts of my job is listening to what the people of Minnesota have to say to me. I am here in our nation’s capital to do the public’s business and to serve the people of our state. I hope you will contact me again about matters of concern to you.
Sincerely,
Amy Klobuchar
United States Senator
My first though was same old liberal response but then I got to thinking about your comment regarding no straight answer. Your senator could be considered for a presidential run (don’t know if you knew that), which is probably why her answers seem detailed but are really lightweight. As for substance, It’s not clear what direction her party is moving with respect to energy and her comment about more off shore drilling was amusing since Democrats are definitely not in favor of any drilling. However her words do ring true as we do need to be in a green mode. Your objections to cap and trade not with standing, cap and trade will cost more but that’s the trade off, as the jobs it takes will no doubt bring other types of industry. I’m more with Boones ideas, let get all those eighteen wheelers off diesel and on propane, then go from there.
By the way; why do you guys always seem to be voting in some strange person up there? You make Minnesota seem like Fargo ND:)
I think it’s a form letter that is most likely sent to anyone that contacts her office in regards to their opposition of “Cap and Tax”.
some unpaid intern wrote that
Canned response.
She’s a Democrat, of course she’ll be voting for it. Reality need not apply.
She probably will vote for it, call them up and give em hell!!
Seems to be hedging.
nice form letter, VOTE HER OUT.
Two things are going on here.
First up, the bill isn’t designed for Cap-and-Trade, that’s what Rush Limbaugh is calling it to get everyone worked up, but those who don’t listen to Rush would have absolutely no reason to connect that phrase to that bill.
Second, it’s just a form letter. An aid probably read the first paragraph of your letter, and sent you back a response from a stack of standard responses. Don’t think your representative is dodging you specifically, she’s dodging everyone.
I have emailed several senators myself to get Big Sister (janet napolitano) fired. The senators are corrupt and non of them deserve to be in the senate as they are now. The bright side of having the courts and the senate rule the country however, is that we can have a revolution in just four years, simply by just voting out everything. If their in power, vote them out, Throw The Bums Out.
TTBO
That’s not a response. It’s a form letter that basically says nothing. I get worse form letters than that from one of my Senators—Sherrod Brown. That is, “if” he bothers to respond at all. My other Senator, George Voinovich is a little better but this is his last term before retirement.
My House Rep, John Boehner is the best for replying to e-mails. His responses are usually fast and sometimes they are form letters while at other times they are personal responses addressing what I have written about. I may not always agree with him but he really does respond to his constituents well.
“One of the most important parts of my job is listening to what the people of Minnesota have to say to me.”
Bull. I bet she didn’t even read your letter and her secretary sends out this as a form response to people asking about this particular legislation.
I mean they don’t even read the bills they pass, so the letters from regualr joes? Not likely.
Oh she is one of those. She supports bio fuel and and fuel efficient cars. Ask her what she drives. Why not drilling our own oil you ^$&^$
I am guessing she was all for cap n trade. Im not sure how that increase national security but i sure wish someone could explain that one to me.
She is goo’sod one for talking around a question i would say she is a liberal.
Write her back and say huh?
Ms K is a politcian. She will do what the leadership, of her party, tells her to do and then will wait until the dust settles before she decides, retroactively, how she voted. If it works, she was always all for it. If it turns out to be a turkey, she was against it all the time.
Never expect candor from a politician.
Lying is a genetic thing with them.
You got told. She basically said this is a good thing, stop buying all the “conservative” BS and think about how good this will be for our earth and the FUTURE of our country…thats right some people like to think ahead. the one or two extra dollars a day it will cost you now will be well worth the saving of billions of dollar we will have to spend on Climate Change issues in the future. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
It’s a form letter. Anytime you write to your senator or congressman this is what you and 5,000 other people get in response to a similar question.