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Don’t Use The Oil Spill to Run Energy Taxes Down our Throat, Obama
A top Republican leader warned President Barack Obama Thursday not to use the BP oil spill as a rationale to ram climate legislation he branded "a national energy tax" through Congress.
Senate Republican minority leader Mitch McConnell told Obama that a bi-partisan majority existed in the Senate against the bill, as the president says the spill shows that long-term over reliance on fossil fuels is untenable.
"We are perfectly happy to work with the administration on legislation that might be appropriate, directly related to the spill in the Gulf," McConnell said after a meeting between Obama and Democratic and Republican leaders.
But he warned against "seizing on the oil spill in the Gulf and using that as a rationale, if you will, for passing a national energy tax referred to down here at the White House as 'cap and trade.'"
"The goal here is to seize on the oil spill in the Gulf in order to generate something totally unrelated to that," McConnell told reporters.
Agreed. Dont even think about it.