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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (603343)	3/11/2011 5:32:51 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574102

And who/what is taking that choice away from you? Government - both sides of the aisle in fact. In 1992 President George Bush Sr. signed the Energy Policy Act. This law made it mandatory that a toilet could not consume more than 1.6 gallons per flush. This law went into effect Jan 1, 1994 for residential buildings and Jan 1, 1997 for commercial building CAFE changes enacted by the 110th Congress (The Energy Independence and Security Act P.L. 110-140, H.R. 6) granted $4.1 billion in benefits to Toyota, Honda and Nissan in the form of partial exemptions from the new CAFE laws....The estimated value of the CAFÉ exemption gained by Toyota is $2.5 billion; Honda’s benefit is worth $0.8 billion, and Nissan’s benefit is valued at $0.9 billion in reduced CAFÉ compliance costs. Foreign companies gained $5.5 billion in benefits compared with the $1.8 billion that went to the Detroit Three. Why are we subsidizing foreign car companies? The initial version[25] of H.R. 6 passed the House of Representatives on January 18, 2007, by a vote of 264 to 163. The Senate version[26] passed 65-27 on June 21, but bore almost no resemblance to the original bill. Speaker Pelosi indicated on Oct 10 that instead of sending the bill to a conference committee, the House would negotiate informally with the Senate to resolve their differences OK - got it - the witch was involved - more demohack behind closed door stuff.