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President Obama, Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh, and the Lord's Resistance Army

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Vicious Babushka3/08/2012 8:08:45 am PST

Got this spam email from the Koch-funded “Americans for Prosperity”

Right now in the U.S. Senate, Senator Jim DeMint and his fellow conservatives are the only thing stopping more wasteful and misguided energy policy. Even though we have one of the most distorted and abused tax codes in the world, and even though government trying to pick winners and losers in the energy markets has failed for decades, the Senate is still going to vote on two amendments to have Washington get in the way of free market energy decisions.

Click here to Take Action and tell your Senators: No More Energy Subsidies!

The first is an amendment to give special handouts to natural-gas-powered vehicles. President Obama is pushing hard to get special tax breaks added to our already broken tax code that would try to manipulate the market into producing more natural-gas-powered vehicles. There’s nothing wrong with natural gas as a vehicle fuel source, but consumers should make that choice not government.

What’s worse, the Senate is also considering extending the so-called wind production tax credit, a foolhardy provision that is finally set to expire at the end of the year. In typical Washington fashion, the wind energy lobby is hard at work trying to get their special provision extended.

Good, I will be sure to contact my representatives in Congress to let them know I want them to support alternative energy subsidies!