Economic cost drives Senate climate debate

June 1st, 2008 By H. JOSEF HEBERT , Associated Press Writer

In this May 21, 2008 file photo, customers re-fuel their vehicles at a Beverly Hills, Calif. gas station, The economic cost of confronting global warming - from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline - is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)

(AP) -- From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress.

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  Our rulers will either attack this matter aggressively and correctly or they, and we, will surely die. It's finally that simple. We can no longer lay this off on future generations. We are the final generation on whom this has been laid off, and we will quickly resolve an absolute, irrevocable solution or perish. The rest of the life forms on this planet are hoping (as possibly cetaceans are capable of hoping) we will choose the latter tack.
  
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