ALEC Says “Affordable Energy” Will Pull U.S. Out of Recession

In a letter to U.S. Senators last week signed by more than 90 state legislators, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) challenged the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.  That was no surprise.  ALEC is the same lobbying group behind legislative resolutions popping up in at least 15 states that also challenge the EPA, some of which include language asserting that climate science is a vast global conspiracy.

The money quote in ALEC’s letter (pdf) is this: “America’s economic recovery depends on affordable energy to sustain growth and reemploy workers.” Since ALEC is partly funded by Exxon, Amoco, Chevron, Shell, the American Petroleum Institute and Texaco among others, one might safely assume that what they really mean is: cheap fossil fuel will pull us out of this slump.  Er…unless ALEC doesn’t care where the energy comes from, as long as it’s affordable…am I missing something?

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