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Show Panguitch • Panguitch Lake • Hatch • Bryce • Tropic • Antimony • Henrieville • Cannonville • Escalante • Boulder • Duck Creek Thursday, September 10, 2009 • Issue # 233 Western Arts and Trades Show Invitation for you and your family to join us in Panguitch, Utah October 9th and 10th 2009: Rural Southern Utah’s Trades Show (with door up so please help us post Garfield County is eager prizes drawings for the at- flyers and get this informafor the 2009 2nd Annual tending public), Open Mic tion out to anyone who may 4-H Working Ranch Horse night for Cowboy Poets and be interested. We do have a (WRH) Gathering on Octo- Singers, a Program Honorfew vendor booth spots still ber 10th starting @ 9am at ing Local Lifetime Cowavailable, please refer to the Triple C Indoor Arena boys, a Dutch Oven Dinner, in Panguitch. Prizes include the 4-H Working Ranch our website for more inforSaddles, Buckles, Western Horse Gathering, a Cowboy mation. Thanks for your help in Bridles, Wildrags, and more Bean Chili Cook-Off (with for High Point Individuals cash Prizes), Roping Con- releasing this public service in each 4-H age group. tests, and a Cowboy Jubilee announcement for Garfield If you or your youth (contest for Cowboy Poets County 4-H a non-profit are not involved in the 4-H and Singers, with cash priz- organization dedicated to WRH Program DON’T es in each age group from the Rancher and Cattlemen/ STOP reading yet because pee-wee to adult). women of tomorrow! there is something for evIf anyone has additional Don’t miss out on the eryone at this year’s fun this year in Panguitch question please feel free to “Annual Cowboy Heri- on October 9th and 10th. call Cassie Lyman tage Festival and 4-H Work- For the event schedule Thanks again and hope to ing Ranch Horse Gather- and more information visit see you in Panguitch! ing” www.garfield4-h.org/wrhCassie Lyman 2009 event activities in- gathering 435-826-4088 Home clude: a Western Arts and Deadlines are coming 435-616-4088 Cell “Local Lifetime Cowboy of the Year” Nominations for the Garfield County “Local Lifetime Cowboy of the Year” Award are being accepted. Qualifications: Individuals or couples must be have spent a majority of their life in Garfield County and been actively involved in Ranching related agriculture. Recipients can only be selected for this award once. weather thursday ISOLATED T-STORMS high: 80 low: 48 friday Mostly Sunny high: 84 low: 49 saturday Sunny high: 85 low: 47 sunday Mostly Sunny high: 82 low: 48 monday Sunny high: 80 low: 45 tuesday Sunny Sunny high: 79 low: 45 wednesday Mostly Sunny high: 79 low: 45 If someone you know meets eligibility for nomination send a short letter/ bio describing why he/she or they should be selected for the 2009 Local Lifetime Cowboy of the Year Award. This year a selection committee will choose up to 3 lifetime honorees, one from each area of the county. Honorees will receive a plaque baring their name and picture for their home and a duplicate plaque which will be hang in the Triple C Arena. Plaques and recognition will be awarded to recipients during the Honoring Dinner Program October 9th, of our 2nd Annual Cowboy Heritage Festival and 4-H Working Ranch Horse Gathering in Panguitch October 9th and 10th, 2009. Nomination letters are due to Cassie Lyman Po Box 67, Escalante, UT 84726 by September 21. If there are additional questions, please contact Cassie Lyman via e-mail at cassie.lyman@usu.edu or by phone at 435-826-4088. “Long live the Western Heritage of Garfield County!” Cap and Trade Bill Carries HUGE Cost, No Benefit to Utah, U.S. Cap and trade legislation now before Congress could cost Utah as many as 24,000 jobs and $455 million a year, Sen. Orrin Hatch warned today at a cap and trade forum at the State Capitol Office Building. Hosted by Hatch (RUtah) and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, the forum in Salt Lake City examined the potential impact to the state of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2454), also referred to as the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Bill. The bill cleared the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this summer and is now before the U.S. Senate. “Four different studies, including one by the fairly liberal Brookings Institute, predict that WaxmanMarkey would result in a serious loss of jobs in the United States, ranging from a loss of 1.7 to 2.7 million jobs each year over the life of the cap and trade proposal,” Hatch warned listeners at the forum. “What does that mean for Utah? Two studies estimate that Utah would lose between 13,000 - and 24,000 jobs annually. According to these same studies, Utah could expect a $256 million to $455 million loss each year to its Gross State Product (GSP) in the early years of Waxman-Markey. However, during the later years of the bill, Utah would see a whopping $2.8 to $4 billion loss to its GSP”. Sen. Hatch’s complete remarks on the cap and trade bill follow: I want to thank my close friend, Governor Herbert, for his remarks and for the serious interest he has shown in this issue. I also appreciate those of you who have come to this event to learn more about how cap and trade legislation being considered in Congress could affect Utahns and Utah’s economy. The legislation under consideration is called the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The bill would force a reduction of human carbon dioxide emissions through a cap and trade system. Energy intensive industries that cannot reduce CO2 emissions would have to purchase allowances in order to remain in business, and the impact of this new tax on carbon-based energy use would touch all goods and services produced in Utah. Governor Herbert and I have been very concerned about how this new tax would affect Utah’s consumers. What would it do to our cost of electricity? What would it do to the cost of food and clothing? What THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER is owned and operated by Snapshot Multimedia and is distributed weekly to all of Garfield County. Its purpose is to inform residents about local issues and events. Articles submitted from independent writers are not necessarily the opinion of Snapshot Multimedia. We sincerely hope you enjoy the paper and encourage input on ideas and/or suggestions for the paper. Thank you for your support. would it do to the price of gasoline and diesel? What would the impact be on Utah jobs and Utah’s economy? To help answer these questions, we have gone to the industries that provide these important products and services to Utahns. We asked them to help us determine the impact of the Waxman-Markey bill on Utah’s consumers, and they have done exactly that. The results of their analysis have been compiled in a report called “Cap and Trade: The Cost to Utah.” We have some of these reports available today in hard copy format, but also have it available electronically. It will be available for downloading on my website, as well, at www.hatch.senate.gov. This report references a number of studies that have been completed on the national level. Not surprisingly, the conclusions vary somewhat and projections continue to change as modifications to the legislation are considered. However, the various studies tend to confirm that Utahns can expect to feel a major bite, over time, if the WaxmanMarkey legislation were to become law. Four different studies, including one by the fairly liberal Brookings Institute, predict that WaxmanMarkey would result in a serious loss of jobs in the United States, ranging from a loss of 1.7 to 2.7 million jobs each year over the life of the cap and trade proposal. What does that mean for Utah? Two studies estimate that Utah would lose between 13,000 - and 24,000 jobs annually. According to these same studies, Utah could expect a $256 million to $455 million loss each year to its Gross State Product in the early years of Waxman-Markey. However, during the later years of the bill, Utah would see a whopping $2.8 to $4 billion loss to its GSP. Notice how the authors of the bill push the greatest pain from their proposals to later years when they will no longer be in office. At this point, Utahns might be wondering why they are being asked to shoulder this tremendous burden. What is the global temperature reduction we can expect to enjoy as a result of all this pain we’ve been asked to bear? Well, I’m very sorry to report that the bill can promise almost no benefit to the climate as a result of this legislation. After analyzing this very question, Dr. Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor of economics and the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors concluded that: “The proposed legislation would have a trivially small effect on global warming while imposing substantial costs on all American households.” Using the assumptions and data from United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, studies have shown Waxman-Markey would reduce the temperature by between .07 and .2 degrees centigrade after nearly a hundred years. This is the amount of the entire U.S. contribution global temperature reductions over a century. I would be very surprised if anyone in this room today has a thermometer at home that can register a .07 degree change in the temperature. Is it any wonder that Waxman-Markey supporters recognize it must be a worldwide effort and call for U.S. leadership to bring other nations under similar carbon constraints? It is very telling that India, China, and Mexico have all balked at committing to strong carbon reductions. The fact of the matter is, that even with U.S. and European leadership we could very well end up going it alone. Considering the pain Utahns would be asked to bear, and the loss of competitiveness for our entire nation, Waxman-Markey is a risk I am not willing to take. Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine Phone: 435-676-2621 Fax 435-836-2700 PO BOX 472, Loa, Utah 84747 snapshot@scinternet.net ALL content for THE GARFIELD COUNTY INSIDER must be submitted on FRIDAY before 5:00 pm to be included in the following Thursday edition of the paper. BOXHOLDER PRE-SORT STANDARD PAID LOA, UTAH PERMIT No. 5 |
