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To: SiouxPal who wrote (1323)	7/28/2005 2:34:34 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) of 24225

I haven't felt much like discussing the Energy Bill... by Prof. Goose at 3:59 PM CDT Tuesday, July 26, 2005 ...because I have felt it would be a waste of our time. It's going to pass. Hot diggity damn. Ezra Klein sums up my reaction to what can only be viewed as an anti-climactic event: Bush's energy bill is headed for passage, and thankfully so. Save for substantive modernization of our electricity grid, an increase in CAFE standards, an actual stance on global warming, a coherent framework for reducing our oil consumption, a serious investment in natural gas, an actual interest in new technologies for alternative sources, and really anything that'd have any sort of worthwhile impact on our energy situation at all, this bill has is just what we need. Subsidies. Giveaways. Handouts. Protection. Guidelines. Bureaucracy. All sprinkled with liberal amounts of Corporate Love and put on the Senate's desk. sigh That is why the two party system we currently have will be too slow to address/solve the problems that we face (not just with peak oil, but with oh so many other things). Both parties are motivated by gaining/keeping power, and in the democratic process that we currently face, that means not taking on problems until it is politically rational to do so. Bully for us. theoildrum.blogspot.com

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