The document summarizes a press release from the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) criticizing provisions in a draft Senate energy bill relating to global warming. Specifically, it calls out proposals to create a White House climate czar and reporting requirements as costly and counterproductive. The CEI urges removal of these climate sections, arguing they would enable energy rationing policies similar to the Kyoto Protocol.

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SUBJECT:: CEI press release: Senate Energy draft bill goes haywire on global warming
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Richard Morrison, 202.331.2273
Myron Ebell 331.2256
Senate Energy Bill Contains Costly Climate Mistake
Committee Draft Takes Wrong Turn on Global Warming Policy
Washington, D.C., March 31, 2003-Americans could be faced with higher
energy prices and energy rationing if new Senate energy legislation
becomes law.~, Troubling provisions include: creating a White House climate
czar and expanded bureaucracy to promote global warming alarmism;
requiring a counter-productive greenhouse gas emissions strategy and
pointless annual reports; and growing a big business lobby for rationing
by awarding early action credits.
D&Although the energy committee staffDi,s draft bill is a big improvement in
most respects over Senator DaschleOl,s anti-energy monstrosity of last year,
the climate section looks like a Lieberman or Kerry campaign document.~r
The Administration opposes the key provisions and so should every
right-thinking Senator,L18 said Myron Ebell, Director of Global Warming
Policy at CEI.
hi&Passage of these provisions would create the plan, institutions, and
political support needed to implement Kyoto-style energy rationing
policies.:V If members of Congress want to provide for a stable future of
af fordable energy for American consumers, the climate sections should be
dropped when Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM) marks up the bill in
committee,08 added Ebell.
CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the
principles of free enterprise and limited government.S' For more
information about CEI, please visit our website at www.cei.org <
http://www.cei.org>
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