Politico [1] is reporting that U.S. Senator Jim Webb does not favor the current Kerry-Boxer cap-and-trade bill being drafted in the Senate.
“In its present form I would not vote for it,” he said. “I have some real questions about the real complexities on cap and trade.”
Instead, Webb is working with Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander on a plan that goes heavy on nuclear power – a safe, reliable, and relatively inexpensive alternative energy. Webb favors doubling its use over the next twenty years.
“Senator Webb has finally listened to the thousands of Virginians who have rejected a cap-and-trade tax that would force them to pay much higher prices for gasoline and electricity and ship what’s left of our manufacturing sector abroad – with no environmental benefit to show for it,” wrote American for Prosperity President Tim Phillips. “Webb has joined a large and growing group of cap-and-trade skeptics who know our already-weak economy can’t afford anything that would raise energy prices and cause more hardship for taxpayers.”
So, this has been a good week for Webb. First, he was right in agreeing with Rep. Frank Wolf about not bringing Kalid Sheik Mohammad to New York…and now this.
I like Webb in his “present form.” Let’s hope he stays this way for awhile.