Florida's utility giants may be keeping their heads down after Gov. Charlie Crist signed three climate change executive orders, but conservative operatives are starting to raise their rumblings.
Monday, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas accused Crist of "pandering to radical environmentalists" by setting targets to reduce greenhouse gases in Florida.
On his Freedomworks Web site, Armey accused Crist of acting "under pressure from Al Gore and his liberal buddies in Hollywood," and warned the orders would force either reductionsin usage of higher utility bills.
"You can magically figure out how to power the entire state with wind, solar, or some other non-carbon emitting source - unfortunately, this isn't the movies," Armey wrote. "The state of Florida derives 70% of its energy from fossil fuels that emit carbon."
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