Energy costs are escalating and destined to spiral higher. Effects of a cap-and-trade regime, passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and now before the Senate, would be damaging for the entire Midwest and Missouri in particular. Regardless of what Congress may or may not do, rising energy costs will be hard to handle. Fortunately, there may be a way to lessen the impact of the inevitable.
LETTER: We must act now to get energy costs under control
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | 12:32 p.m. CST;
updated 3:59 p.m. CST, Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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