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deadline: 3-30-2010
goal: 5,000

Cutting Emissions is a Bargain - Support Cap and Trade!

Sponsored by: Environmental Defense Fund

Critics have said that a Cap and Trade program is too expensive. But we have already spent billions on the repercussions of global warming, and it will only get worse.

Don't believe it? Consider this:
- We have lost $1.3 billion as a result of crop loss from Georgia's drought in 2007.
- It cost $300 million to repair rail transportation after Hurricane Katrina.
- We spent $272 million in 2007 as a result of increasing flood damage.

Not convincing enough? How about this: Four global warming impacts alone -- hurricane damage, real estate losses, energy costs, and water costs -- will come with a price tag of 1.8 percent of U.S. GDP, or almost $1.9 trillion annually (in today's dollars) by 2100.

And now, consider the cost of Cap and Trade: The median projected impact of climate policy is less than one-half of one percent of U.S. GDP for the period 2010-2030, and under three-quarters of one percent through the middle of the century.

So now is the cost of a Cap and Trade system worth it? We think so. Ask your members of Congress to pass a Cap and Trade system to regulate greenhouse gases today!

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We signed “Cutting Emissions is a Bargain - Support Cap and Trade!”!

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8:02 am PDT, Jun 26, Colleen Ferguson, Mississippi

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4:36 pm PDT, Jun 24, Curtis Evans, Illinois

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3:58 pm PDT, Jun 24, Kelsey Schoenemann, Virginia

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12:19 pm PDT, Jun 24, Carolyn Gleason, New Hampshire
We can't put a price on our future.

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12:06 pm PDT, Jun 24, Amanda Schneider, Illinois

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11:46 am PDT, Jun 24, Joe Park, Oregon

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11:17 am PDT, Jun 24, Caroline Metzler, Colorado

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11:04 am PDT, Jun 24, Casey Gryder, Missouri

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10:34 am PDT, Jun 23, Jessica Reddoch, California

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7:23 am PDT, Jun 23, Summer Whitt, Texas

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1:30 am PDT, Jun 23, Kelle Peeplez, Michigan

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2:42 am PDT, Jun 20, Denisszia Gerocz, Romania

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2:07 am PDT, Jun 19, Gail Dair, Australia

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3:01 am PDT, Jun 17, Tom Maxwell, California

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7:00 pm PDT, Jun 15, Beth Stein, California

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11:33 am PDT, Jun 15, Daphna Jindrich, Mexico

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9:47 am PDT, Jun 15, Stormoak Lonewind, Massachusetts

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5:32 am PDT, Jun 15, Devina Anindita, Indonesia

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10:07 am PDT, Jun 14, Renee Coughlan, Texas

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12:05 am PDT, Jun 10, Alla Yartman, Russian Federation

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10:03 pm PDT, Jun 9, Amber D., West Virginia

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3:51 pm PDT, Jun 9, Raw Rii, Arizona

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3:47 pm PDT, Jun 9, Kira Sniderman, Michigan

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3:01 pm PDT, Jun 9, Frida Simms, Virginia

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6:11 pm PDT, Jun 8, Nick Hand, Washington D.C.

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4:33 pm PDT, Jun 8, Susan Rowe, California

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10:47 am PDT, Jun 8, Annie Phillips, New York

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8:20 am PDT, Jun 8, Rebekah Bischoff, Ohio
This is not too expensive at all! The only scum who says that are paid by monopolies and business conglomerates who care absolutely nothing about the U.S. economy and americans.

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5:11 am PDT, Jun 8, Maria Spatenhuber, Texas

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12:16 am PDT, Jun 8, Tatiana Costa, Brazil

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6:29 pm PDT, Jun 7, Eric Mc Allister, Canada

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7:50 am PDT, Jun 5, Kate Duvall, Illinois

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11:09 am PDT, Jun 3, Lyhann O'Shaughnessy, Mexico

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2:29 pm PDT, Jun 2, Stephanie Jeffi, Ohio

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3:22 pm PDT, Jun 1, Rachael Fallon, Texas

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2:20 pm PDT, Jun 1, Richard Benoit, Canada

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7:42 am PDT, Jun 1, Knowcancer Cancer, Florida

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5:31 am PDT, May 31, Gale Weaner, Texas

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4:49 am PDT, May 30, Marvin Johnson, Virginia

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1:24 pm PDT, May 29, C C Schenk, North Carolina

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8:23 am PDT, May 29, Shirley Hunsberger, North Carolina

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6:58 am PDT, May 29, Elaine Robinson, United Kingdom

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1:42 pm PDT, May 28, Name not displayed, California

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3:29 pm PDT, May 27, The Amazon, Washington

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