If the so-called Safe Climate Act passes the Congress, you can thank 4th District U.S. Rep. David Price, 11th District Rep. Heath Shuler, and 12th District U.S. Rep. Mel Watt when your power bills double over the next few years. Both are co-sponsors of the cap-and-trade bill that the House’s most liberal members are pushing frantically before everyone knows how it will ruin our economy.

Price, for his part, is proud of his position on this disastrous piece of legislation. Here’s what he says on his Web site:

I am a cosponsor of both the Safe Climate Act (H.R. 1590) and the Climate Stewardship Act (H.R. 620), which would establish a market driven cap-and-trade system for reducing U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases responsible for global warming. These bills would roll back U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 80 percent by mid-century, which is the level of reductions scientists say we need to avoid a dangerous climate tipping point.

We already know our members of Congress don’t read bills, but maybe they should read an EPA report that Democrat leaders are trying to suppress. Here is the preface to that report (emphasis added):

“We have become increasingly concerned that EPA and many other agencies and countries have paid too little attention to the science of global warming. EPA and others have tended to accept the findings reached by outside groups…as being correct without a careful and critical examination of their conclusions and documentation.”

LATER: While they’re at it, Price and Shuler might want to read “15 Reasons to Oppose Climate Bill,” you know, just to get the other side.

UPDATE: I just added Mel Watt to the headline and the text. I missed him in the list of co-sponsors the first time around. Question: Why is Shuler hanging with the left-wing of the Democratic Party on this when even liberal Brad Miller wouldn’t co-sponsor this piece of legislation?

MORE: The John Locke Foundation’s Daren Bakst writes at National Review Online about “The Renewable-Energy Scam.”

UPDATE: Even Greenpeace is against this bill. How’s that for bedfellows?