Bo Kociuba - Interesting post.  A bit biased, but interesting.  Maybe you don't have the same problems I've noticed in Colorado and Iowa, but a lot of trees are dieing from the heat stress.  Personally, I believe it's a trade off, drowning in a sea of Federal Debt (which I don't believe will be nearly as bad as charaterized here), or suffocate to death from the CO2 and the heat.  Global warming is not some kind of a myth.

Here's a link to another, perhaps a bit more balanced perspective than the Heritage Foundation -- a well-known Republican mouth-piece/think-tank.

Mother Jones -- Waxman-Markey: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

And from the Pew Center for Global Climate Change -- the Myths about the Waxman-Markey Clean Energy Bill seems to add a bit more balance.  Note the reference under Myth #2 to the Heritage Foundation study. 

Here's an excerpt.  "Finally, the Heritage Foundation recently issued a memo claiming that the Waxman-Markey bill would cost households $4,300 annually. But this analysis fails to consider many of the key provisions of the bill including its extensive use of offsets to reduce overall costs and its use of the value of emission allowances to reduce costs to consumers".

Obviously, I think we're seeing some "change we can believe in" and the results of this energy bill are going to be very good changes, Bo,  for the vast majority of Americans.   Reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and creating jobs that can't be outsourced -- these are paramount if we are to starve the coffers of those who fund the radical-Islamists, like those who attacked us on 9/11/2001.