Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Cry Wolf Quotes
[Companies covered by RGGI] will be placed at a competitive disadvantage vis-à-vis their non-RGGI competitors (domestic as well as international).
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Lawrence Kogan, director of the Princeton, N.J.-based Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development (ITSSD)
RGGI drives up energy costs for consumers at a time when nobody can afford any additional taxes.
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New Jersey State Senator Diane Allen (R-Burlington).
High energy costs, like taxes, just make New Jersey a tougher state in which to do business. This is not a partisan issue, it’s just a bad deal for New Jersey.
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Philip Kirschner, president of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association, represents 22,000 employers in the state.
'Cap & Trade' stands to cost New Jersey thousands of jobs, millions in lost wealth and vastly higher gas and electric bills. This alone is reason enough to kill RGGI.
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Americans for Prosperity.