Feinstein on "Cap and Tax"

Re your response to my email regarding Cap and Tax and your response: "I believe that there is convincing scientific evidence that climate change is happening, and I have come to conclude that the cost of failing to act far exceeds the cost of taking the necessary steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make a permanent shift towards clean, renewable energy and energy efficient technologies. Please know that I appreciate hearing your concerns and remain committed to advancing measures that address climate change, create jobs and increase our energy independence."

But there is not convincing evidence that humans are causing climate change and therefore legislation to change energy use habits is a wasteful lost opportunity. Green energy does not have the potential to replace fossil fuel as an effective one to one replacement option. An alternative that makes sense is to use our own fossil fuel resources and to develop nuclear energy, both of which do have the ability to reduce our reliance on foreign sources. Also, unilaterally reducing our output will have no effect if China and India do not. So passage of this bill will put the US at a competitive disadvantage and ultimately not change the environment in any significant way. There is no evidence our green efforts will encourage the Chinese or the Indian to follow suit, nor should they because they understand how limited green alternatives are.

The liberal democrats have been stopping all efforts to develop these energy sources for years. Now they say it will take years for them to be developed and useful. When Thomas Jefferson's White House gardener objected to planting magnolias at the White House because it would be hundred years before they would be sizable, Jefferson replied "then we should plant them right away". So stop wasting time.

I think you are smart enough and wise enough to have the courage to stop following the polls, stop pandering to your constituents and start speaking logic and educating voters regarding the adoption of energy self-sufficiency including fossil fuels and nuclear that will also create jobs and will actually create real usable replacement energy. In the meantime we can continue to figure out how to get enough power from the wind and the sun.

Frankly, the is something going on here which is not satisfied by logic.