Punishing You For BarryPetroleum's Spill

Harry Reid is about to sneak an energy tax into the Gulf Oil Spill bill. Disguised as an attempt to introduce new safety measures for offshore drilling, Reid is actually using this disaster and playing off the hardship of the American people on the Gulf Coast as a way to play politics and increase your taxes.

Help us stop this new tax today. Call your Senators today and tell them you do not support this job-killing energy tax plan, and that measures to address the oil spill in the Gulf should be introduced without playing politics.

Also, please join over 218,000 other American Solutions members and sign the petition to Stop the Energy Tax so we can reach our goal of 250,000 signatures by Friday.

The idea behind Reid's approach is that Senators will not want to vote against new oil drilling safety measures in the wake of the Gulf spill no matter if the bill also contains new energy taxes. He's using this tragedy to punish you for driving to work, adjusting your thermostat, and powering your home.

Join us by telling your Senators that it's time for Harry Reid to stop exploiting a disaster to help fund his big government agenda. Please call your Senators today.

Reid's global warming plan will likely limit how many tons of carbon dioxide electric utilities can emit, which makes it a massive new tax on energy that will kill jobs and send electricity prices skyrocketing.

To give you an idea of exactly how destructive Reid's plan could be, a recent study found that cap and trade could kill 5 million jobs over the next few decades and cost each taxpayer thousands of dollars in higher energy costs.

Addressing oil drilling safety in the wake of the Gulf oil rig disaster is too serious to be held up by a wildly unpopular effort by Senate liberals to impose a new energy tax on all Americans. Senate liberals should promote their new energy taxes in a separate bill and not waste any more time in passing oil drilling reforms.

But that won't happen, because the Left knows new energy taxes are unpopular with the American people, and a bill that would kill jobs and raise the cost of energy would go down in flames.

In the meantime, we'll track what happens with the energy bill and keep you updated. Newt Gingrich will be discussing this issue and others at our Real Job Summit in Stamford, CT tonight at 6:30 PM. You can watch it live online by clicking here.

Sincerely,
Dan-V-Signature