Model Resolution

WHEREAS, affordable and abundant energy is a strategic resource that is essential to modern life and America’s economic competitiveness; and

WHEREAS, the imposition of burdensome, government-mandated carbon dioxide restrictions and disincentives will have a dramatic, immediate impact on energy costs; and

WHEREAS, reducing carbon emissions in any individual state, and even throughout the entire United States of America, will not have a significant impact on international carbon dioxide reduction, unless countries like China, Russia, Mexico, and India make similar reductions in carbon emissions; and

WHEREAS, the United States this century has already reduced its carbon dioxide emissions more than any other nation in the world; and

WHEREAS, private sector innovation in the United States has led to this efficient stewardship of resources; and

WHEREAS, other nations continue to take advantage of the situation, with global carbon dioxide emissions having risen more than 50 percent this century, despite the United States reducing its emissions by at least 15 percent; and

WHEREAS, disincentives, penalties, and restrictions on conventional energy will worsen the competitive disadvantages United States consumers, businesses, and exporters already suffer; and

WHEREAS, President Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline is harmful to the United States economy and is destroying thousands of American jobs; and

WHEREAS, a tremendous amount of economic growth would be sacrificed for a reduction in American carbon dioxide emissions that would have no appreciable impact on global concentrations of CO2 or global climate; and

WHEREAS, no state or nation has enhanced economic opportunities for its citizens or increased Gross Domestic Product through government-mandated carbon dioxide reduction policies; and

BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED that [insert state] legislators support reliable and affordable energy and reaffirm that any government action to disincentivize, penalize, or restrict carbon dioxide emissions is counterproductive and harmful public policy.