ily reduce greenhouse emissions because he believe this with further inflate the price of energy in the developed world. One cant help but see the conflict of interest because Bush, a former Oilman, and vice-President Dick Cheney a current one, are not objective. They see potential energy reserves in Canada, off the coast of Texas or in the wildlife refuge in Alaska and they want to exploit it and make a few more hundred million dollars. The average U.S. consumer will pay an average of 38-48% more for gasoline, 23% more for electricity and 46% more for natural gas under the UN greenhouse emissions treaty All goods and services requiring energy in manufacturing, transportation or delivery, just about everything, also would become less-affordable lowering living standards of all working families. Jack Kemp, the 1996 U.S. vice presidential candidate, had this to say about the U.N. policy. The treaty would saddle Americans with higher energy bills as we are forced to tax energy use. Some have estimated that such a carbon tax could increase the cost of gasoline by as much as 60 cents a gallon, and of home heating oil by 50%. These taxes are highly regressive and will be most harmful to citizens who live on fixed incomes and work at poverty-level wages. Over the next two decades in the US oil consumption will rise 33%, natural gas consumption will rise 50%, and electricity demands will rise 45%. With that in mind, president Bush is bent on finding more economically viable sources of fuel and Canada seems to be the place. Canada has become such a friend to the US that we are afraid of upsetting our relationship. Our economies have become so interconnected that there is growing pressure to integrate our economies past NAFTA, towards tax and monetary policies, and even the elimination of the Canadian dollar. Canada has almost been culturally assimilated by the US already, now further integration of our economic policies threaten to make us the ...
