Look out, Washington: There is no such thing as a lazy farmer. From the Wichita Eagle:
Farm state senators and others soon will get a taste of what their colleagues from Missouri already have piled high on their desks: thousands of letters from farmers urging them to vote against the climate and energy bill.
The Missouri Farm Bureau started the letter campaign early, weeks before the bill was fully written and made public.
It was followed this month with a pitch from the American Farm Bureau, the nation's largest agriculture lobby, to get farmers to take farm caps, sign their bills and send them to senators with notes that say, "Don't cap our future."
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Farm lobby groups and senators who agree with them argue that imposing limits on the nation's emissions of heat-trapping gases from coal, oil and natural gas would raise the cost of farming necessities such as fuel, electricity and natural gas-based fertilizer.
The national energy tax, better known as cap and trade, is another expensive scheme the Democrats are trying to force on America.
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Cap and trade will spell disaster for America's agriculture industry, and our economy along with it. I actually read an argument that said farmers could just stop growing crops to combat the increased costs from cap and trade. Ridiculous. If you would like to write a letter to Congress voicing opposition to cap and trade, visit http://tiny.cc/hqoro.
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