The Wall Street Journal reported today that Senate majority leader Harry Reid has postponed debate on the cap and trade bill until at least spring pushing a cap and trade vote until next year.

The cap and trade bill is an attempt by our government to address global warming.  Our government has decided to ignore the true facts about global warming and has even suppressed any studies that bring up facts against global warming.

A post at Hot Air explains why this means that we wouldn’t see a cap and trade bill come to the floor of the senate or even a cap and trade vote anytime before the 2010 elections as many Democrats from red states would be unwilling to risk their careers on raising the cost of energy for voters through a cap and trade bill.

Many Americans that think they understand the global warming debate may find themselves asking, what is cap and trade?  The cap and trade theory is that by instituting a cap and trade tax, companies would put less CO2 into the atmosphere and those that due would pay the government to do so.  Companies that can reduce emissions of CO2 could sell or trade their carbon credits.

One major flaw of the cap and trade theory is that it ignores that the cap and trade tax would be passed on to energy consumers.  Several groups that support a cap and trade bill hope that is the case.  The cap and trade theory is that when energy is more expensive, people will use less energy saving the planet in the process.

The cap and trade theory doesn’t take into account that consumers just don’t use energy in their homes, but everything they buy consumes energy to produce and ship.  The cap and trade bill would in effect create a cap and trade tax that would raise the cost of all goods and services.

Hopefully, by the time this comes up again, most Americans and our representatives will know the facts about global warming and drop the idea of creating a massive tax increase on the American people.  This will help insure that a cap and trade senate vote would bring an end to the cap and trade bill.

MichelleMalkin.com has a list of which representatives voted against their party.

However, there is hope that this massive tax increase will be defeated in the senate.  Jay Cost at Realclearpolitics.com did a great job of of analyzing which senators are under pressure to defeat the bill.  According to the analysis, there are 15 senate democrats that will be under pressure to vote against the bill as their state voted against it in the house.

The key here is that if your senator is listed as being under moderate or significant pressure to vote against the bill, you need to call or email them now to let them know you do not support this tax increase to solve a problem that doesn’t even exist.  You can find the phone numbers and email addresses of your senators here.  If you lack the courage to call, it is very easy to email your senators.  Contact them now and let them know what you think.

Our government moved another step closer today to instituting a new major energy tax that will ultimately be paid for by every consumers.  There is even a provision in the bill that gives money to low income households to help off-set the price increases in energy usage.

There are so many things wrong with this bill, it is hard to know where to start.  The most glaring issue is that our government is in a hurry to pass this bill.  Why?  More and more studies are being published that show that man made global warming is at best wrong and and worst a hoax.

The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling. Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe now counts more than 700 scientists who disagree with the U.N. — 13 times the number who authored the U.N.’s 2007 climate summary for policymakers.

There is a great story in the WSJ by Kimberly A. Strassel detailing several of the facts that our government and our media refuse to tell us.  As more and more people become aware of the lies that have been told to the American people, congress is worried that there will be ramifications for supporting the bill if they don’t act now.

Through yesterday, the Waxman-Markey bill totaled a little over 1,000 pages.  Early this morning, Congressman Waxman introduced an additional 300 pages of legislation to the bill.  I am concerned that most congressmen won’t even bother to read the new provisions before voting to pass the bill.  There is a good post over at Hotair laying out further issues with the bill.

The cost of the bill is also up for debate.  At one point, the CBO reported that it would cost the average American over $6,000 per year in extra costs.  This made Nancy Pelosi very mad and shortly afterward, the CBO came out with a new estimate of only a few hundred dollars per year per household.  However, this is due to a provision in the bill that relaxed the standards and prices for the next 10 years.  After which, you can expect to pay an additional $6,000 in energy taxes.  All of this to combat man made climate change which as at least highly debatable.

For example, it is estimated that the price of gas would raise by approximately 77 cents a gallon as oil refineries pay for additional permits.

If you want to put a stop to this non-sense, I urge you to call your representative.  Michelle Malkin has a post that lets you know who you should call and how to get in touch with them.  If you are so sure that man is causing global warming that you are willing to pay $6,000 to fight it, then by all means, call your representative to support them.  However, if you are sick and tired of legislation being rammed down your throat, call you representative and let them know that you do not support the Waxman Markey bill.

A great post by Paul Driessen over at Townhall likens the global warming disinformation to a corporate scandal.  If a drug company doctored evidence and skewed the results of studies, people would go to jail.  Yet we constantly see the reports from scientists who ignore contrary data and discount or go around peer reviews.

Our friends in the media continue to push this agenda and our children are taught that they and their parents are responsible for global warming.

Thousands of scientists say CO2 has little effect on planetary temperatures, and there is no climate crisis. Few developed countries are ready to commit economic suicide by agreeing to reduce their CO2 emissions by even one-tenth of what Waxman-Markey demands for the United States.

President Obama and the democrat party run congress are in favor of cap and trade legislation that will result in a massive energy tax for the American people.  They present it as a tax on those companies that produce earth warming CO2 without telling the people that consumers will pay the taxes and not the evil polluting companies.

If you ask the average American they would tell you that the earth is getting hotter.  However, over the last decade global average temperatures have been declining.  In fact, we are currently below the average temperature for the past 4,500 years.  Most global warming alarmists point out that we are hotter than 300 years ago ignoring the fact that 300 years ago was the low point of the little ice age that saw the coolest temperatures in over a thousand years.

This is not to say that we shouldn’t find ways to reduce pollution and be kind to the planet.  When I am in the market for a car, I would love to find an SUV or large vehicle that gets more than 30 mpg.  One day, we will get off of fossil fuels, but it doesn’t need to happen next week.  

We do not need to wreak our economy by shackling the American people with a massive energy tax to fund one of the political elites pet projects.