The Republican and Democratic candidates for Michigan’s open US Senate seat pitched themselves to business people at a conference on Mackinac Island today.
Peters and Land made back-to-back appearances at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac conference.
One of the issues that Democratic Congressman Gary Peters and former Michigan Republican Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land disagreed on was how to deal with greenhouse gasses.
Next week, the federal government is expected to release new cap-and-trade rules to discourage carbon emissions. Peters supports cap and trade. He says it will help move the country toward using alternative fuels.
“If we’re going to deal with climate change, which I believe we have to, let’s do it in a way that really transforms economies in ways that creates hundreds, thousands of good-paying middle-class jobs in America,” Peters said.
Land disagreed, saying, “Federal policies are threatening our access to secure and affordable energy.”
Land says cap-and-trade will actually cost jobs. She says energy policy should focus on more domestic sources of oil and gas, such as building the Keystone pipeline.
