From a press release:
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL) voted against H.R. 2454, the so-called “cap and tax” legislation, when it passed the House today. H.R. 2454 creates a national energy tax that will lead to higher energy prices and further job losses.
Schock supports the Republican alternative to this legislation, which would increase our energy supply through an ‘all of the above’ energy policy that develops more of our domestic resources, invests in renewable and alternative energy sources, offers incentives for better efficiency and conservation, and makes a renewed commitment to clean and emissions free nuclear energy.
“People in the eighteenth Congressional District of Illinois are hurting,” said Schock. “Just today it was announced that Peoria’s unemployment rate crossed into double digits for the first time in more than two decades. Yet still the House voted to add 3,100 of my constituents to the unemployment lines.”
“This bill asks America to pay more when they have less. For instance, this act will also cause electric rates to increase by $84 to $157 dollars per year,” continued Schock. “While this doesn’t sound like much, for someone whose job has just been moved to China, or India or some other environmentally lax country, it is far too great a price.”
“I agree that we need more renewable and green energy sources, but the way we will get there is by providing incentives to anyone who uses, produces, invests in or does research upon new energy sources, not through the penalties included in this bill,” Schock concluded.
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Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
Good for you Aaron! Too bad eight of your fellow Republicans are pathetic enough to vote for the unilateral destruction of our economy.
Talk is cheap. Everyone says they want renewable energy. Not everyone is willing to take meaningful action to make it happen. There have been tax breaks for wind for years and it wasn’t enough to get the job done. Schock’s anti-tax dogma doesn’t pass the reality test.
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Schock is smart enough to realize that the rest of the world won’t live by these same standards and we are making ourselves (United States) less competitive by passing this awful legislation that will only hurt US citizens.