Non-partisan group extends education, advocacy campaign for fourth consecutive week in Palmetto State

Washington, DC – As U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) continues to work to enact a job-killing cap-and-trade bill as part of larger global warming policy, the American Energy Alliance (AEA) – a non-partisan, non-profit advocacy organization– launched yet another television commercial today aimed at educating South Carolina residents about how cap-and-trade will increase energy...
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WASHINGTON - In honor of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works’ passage of the Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill, the American Energy Alliance (AEA) today released its top 10 reasons to support cap-and-trade: 10) It’ll be the largest tax increase in history and will help pay for the government takeover of health care. 9) America’s unemployment rate is only 10 percent. Higher energy prices and the resulting transfer of American businesses overseas will help us double...
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WASHINGTON- As theSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works continues to discusscap-and-trade, the American Energy Alliance (AEA) released its top 10 questionsfor the committee’s members. 10) Do you think Americans are not paying enough for gasoline,electricity, food, clothing, and just about everything else? 9)  Was President Obama just kidding when he said, “Under my planof a cap-and-trade system, electricity prices would necessarilyskyrocket ”? What about the...
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South Carolina voters deserve to know where Sen. Graham stands on cap-and-trade WASHINGTON – As Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) continues to defend his support for a job-killing national energy tax, the American Energy Alliance (AEA) today examined some of his most recent public statements.

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"This administration is not going to allow offshore drilling for oil and gas unless it's part of some bigger deal," Graham said in a conference call with South...

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Senate EPW kicks off cap-and-raid debate, set to hear from over 50 witnesses Washington, DC - As the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee formally kicks off its global warming debate, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the pro-market American Energy Alliance (AEA) issued the following statement: "The fundamental goal of this global warming legislation is to make affordable and reliable energy sources more expensive and to mandate the use of inefficient,intermittent and costly forms of...
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New AEA TV adhits South Carolina airwaves this week Washington, DC - As part of the American Energy Alliance's (AEA) ongoing advocacy campaign in South Carolina, the free market energy group today launched a statewide television campaign questioning US Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) support for a national energy tax. Senator Graham has expressed public support for cap-and-trade legislation. In the run up to the ads hitting the airwaves, Thomas J. Pyle, president of AEA, issued the...
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Washington, DC – With South Carolina’s senior senator throwing his support behind job-killing cap-and-trade legislation, the American Energy Alliance (AEA) today announced the first phase of a comprehensive educational campaign aimed at arming South Carolinians with the facts about such far-reaching policies and their potential impact on the state’s struggling economy. The campaign will kick off tomorrow, Thursday, October 22. “In a state where the unemployment rate is hovering near...
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An “Improvement” to Cash-and-Kerry... Washington, DC – In response to media reports regarding Senator Kerry’s global warming legislation and Senator Lindsay Graham’s suggestion that the revival of the “Gang of 10” plan could serve as a way forward, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance (AEA), issued the following statement: “The so-called ‘Gang of 10’ plan was a bad idea last year and a terrible one this year. Advocating this plan as a possible...
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WASHINGTON, DC— Earlier today, U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) released a draft of their energy tax bill, legislation that will not only create an annual $14 billion transfer of wealth from the nation’s poorest to the nation’s wealthiest, but will also destroy American jobs and levy the largest tax in U.S. history on American families and consumers. AEA president Thomas J. Pyle released the following statement on the bill: “Cap-and-trade is, at its...
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Internal White House documents shows true costs of cap-and-trade, Job-killing legislation tantamount to 15 percent tax hike across the board on every American family Washington, DC – Thomas J. Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance (AEA), issued the following statement in light of a recently revealed internal White House document that shows cap-and-trade will cost families $1,761 annually: “Over the better part of this year, the American Energy Alliance has shed light on the...
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