Posted on 02/23/2009 1:16:58 PM PST by DBCJR
The future of energy and climate policy is starting to take shape, if comments by Senate majority leader Harry Reid at a clean-energy conference in Washington, D.C. are any guide.
...Thered been plenty of speculation that Congress would bundle together energy-related provisions and a climate bill in the same package. That way, the bitter pill of stricter regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions and higher costs for energy would be offset by a new round of goodies. ...
Sen. Reid said hes decided that renewable-energy and climate change are two separate issues, and we need to make this as easy to do as possible. That means that the 111th Congress will again try to draft stand-alone climate legislation,... But as David Roberts at Grist has noted, Congressional Democrats are far from a unified bloc when it comes to climate policy, with many Blue Dog Democrats leery of anything that smacks of additional burdens on industry.
Sen. Reid also made clear that Washington will call the shots as Congress and the Obama administration seek to overhaul how the country generates and uses electricity. That is especially important for several key issues, from building a new interstate electricity transmission network to changing the way that utilities make money from selling electricity. In both cases, state regulations currently prevail.
Told that state utility regulators are wary of Congress plans to railroad through new interstate transmission lines, Sen. Reid said Whatever we pass at the federal level trumps all that.
That marks Washingtons second shot across the bow of state authorities in as many weeks. The stimulus package included provisions that would condition federal money to states re-writing their utility laws to favor energy efficiency.
Get ready for a backlash from state capitals, many of which have been out in from of Washington D....
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
Where is Green River? Colorado?
Saudis have 260 bbl barrels though many say it BS and far less because they never upgrade it.
My guess-timates are in the lower 48 onshore:
Oil shale 1.7 bbls
Coal diesel the same?
Oil like Bakken 20 billion?
Offshore and AK:
ANWR 10 to 15 bbls
SE US coastal 10 bbl??
CA and West Coastal 10 bbls
Gulf Deep water 10 to 20 bbls
Permafrost hydrate methane gas in AK onshore - enough gas to warm 30 million homes for a decade?
Does not count the possible deep sea methane.
Both parties and especially the Democrats are selling us out to Saudis.
the states have to grab the land back from the Feds. The Feds will mortgage it all to china, Saudis and whomever to sell us out.
Funny
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