Senator Voinovich sent the following to his online newsletter on September 30th 2009:

Recently, Sen. Voinovich delivered remarks at the Managing Ohio’s Energy Future Climate Change Conference to discuss Ohio’s vital role in the national climate change debate. As a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) and the Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee, Sen. Voinovich has been at the forefront of the debate on climate change. He is committed to harmonizing our environmental, energy and economic needs, though he does not believe this should be done on the backs of working families. His vote against the Lieberman-Boxer climate bill last year helped save hundreds of thousands of Ohio jobs and protect Ohio seniors and families from sky-rocketing natural gas, electricity and gasoline costs. Sen. Voinovich believes the smart way to go about addressing this problem isn’t through unilateral actions that hurt our economy and drive jobs overseas. Americans are already struggling with increases in their cost of living due to higher prices for gasoline, home heating fuel, electricity, food and health care. Climate change must be addressed in a bipartisan way – it must incentivize the clean energy technologies we need now and in the future. Only through a collaborative, multinational effort can we develop and deploy the clean energy technologies necessary to solve this global problem.

Progress Ohio:

When it comes to America’s energy future, there’s a simple choice to be made between OLD and NEW.House Minority Leader John Boehner and his Ohio GOP colleagues represent OLD energy. All cast their vote with OLD energy – namely Big Oil and Dirty Coal — when they voted against the American Clean Energy and Security Act in the House of Representatives. They lost that fight and now they want a do over in the Senate, which is why they are holding this so-called “energy summit,” which features only a one sided dialogue between clean energy opponents who want to protect the status quo.

They would have you believe that the American Clean Energy and Security Act would kill jobs and raise energy rates for consumers.

Don’t believe them!