I can’t believe we’re closing up our tenth day on the road and have already traveled through three states. Those first 2,032 miles went pretty quickly. I hope that keeps up! Today we were in Beaver County, Pennsylvania at the Hookstown Fair. We heard more stories from folks who are worried about the impacts higher electricity and energy prices would have on their families, small businesses, and their way of life.
I even talked to one gentleman who told me he’s already blocked off the second story of his house and stopped using his air conditioner to keep his energy bills affordable–that’s while he’s holding down a full-time job. Another man told me he’s concerned that if his energy bills go up any higher, he’ll have to choose between buying groceries and paying his electricity bill.
These stories, and the many equally troubling others we’ve heard, are the reason we’re out here on the road. I only wish we could go to more places and hear from more people. I want to encourage all of you energytownhall.org readers to use this blog as a forum for you to tell your stories. If we don’t make it to your town, or if we’ve already swung through, please use the comments section to tell us what you think about how cap-and-trade and higher energy prices would affect your lives.
It takes a lot of voices to turn the volume up loud enough to make our Senators listen. Please join us in our fight to stop the national energy tax and save American jobs!
Thank you for all you are doing. I think it immoral that our own government would be deliberately hurting those of us on fixed incomes. It makes me angry. Life is hard enough without some elitists in Washington making it worse. Haven’t these people ever had to struggle the way many of us have?
Maybe the worst part is that it won’t make any difference because if we stop using energy the foreigners will just use everything for their people. What is wrong with Washington? They should have to work for a living and then maybe they’d understand.