The Dirtiest Bus Tour in America Gains Traction

While you were off on your summer staycation, a small group of sunny-faced activists hit the road in a big blue tour bus, armed with clipboards and talking points.

Welcome aboard the American Energy Express!

With job-killing legislation advancing through Congress that will fundamentally alter the American way of life, the American Energy Alliance (AEA), a non-partisan, not-for-profit grassroots advocacy group, has embarked on a month-long bus tour to educate working-families, retirees, small business owners and every American that uses energy on cap-and-trade.

This blue bus, dubbed the American Energy Express, spent August driving through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia, and Virginia with the slogan “Stop the National Energy Tax, Save American Jobs” emblazoned on its side.

The bus tour is out to kill the Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill, the first bill to propose carbon-dioxide limitations, which has passed both the House and the Senate. Using information based on a Spanish study commissioned by IER, the AEA distributes a factsheet criticizing renewable-energy advocates’ claims about green jobs. The study directed by Gabriel Calzada Álvarez, economics professor at Juan Carlos University in Madrid says Spanish government spending on green energy to boost job creation kills on average 2.2 jobs for every green-collar job it creates. The carnage could be even worse, the study says, if job destruction from companies fleeing Spain’s higher energy prices were included. (Gabriel described this study, and it’s impact in Spain at the Atlas Experience this past August, watch and listen to his speech here.)

Follow the bus tour on their interactive website. Find out where they’re headed as they may just be passing through your town.

American Energy Alliance is the “grassroots arm” of the Institute for Energy Research (IER). The mission of IER is to conduct historical research and evaluate policies in industrial markets respecting property rights and benefiting energy consumers and producers.

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