What's the Connection between West Virginia and the G8?

This morning's Wall Street Journal proclaims, "G8 may drop emissions targets." So what's the connection to the Mountain State?

As the Cap and Trade Bill was read and placed on the Senate calendar yesterday, our Senators should be aware of the G8's admittance that their arbitrary goals were exaggerated and unnecessary. Like the G8 is coming to realize, it's not a bad idea to strive for less energy use and more efficient expenditures of fuels and oil. However, strapping down an entire population with politicized legislation will cripple the United States with extreme taxes and debt (especially in coal-producing states like West Virginia).

When the G8 reconsiders it's position on climate change, New Yorkers are wearing sweaters in July, snow falls in the Arabian Peninsula, and the EPA censors reports that debunk global warming. This is positive news for rational proponents against the Waxman-Markey legislation that recently passed the House 291-212. Imminent Senate action will decide the fate of this very EXPENSIVE and EXAGGERATED legislation, threating American households with thousands of dollars in increased taxes.

Senators Rockefeller and Byrd should NOT tow the party line and think about the needs of West Virginia constituents. America was right to not sign the Kyoto Protocols, and we are right to oppose Waxman-Markey. If America foots the bill for global climate control initiatives, without the cooperation of the rest of the world, what progress does this make?