What the heck...
It's just a few billion. Drop in the bucket. < /sarcasm>
Sounds like they used two well used Washington tricks.
1. Some pork for everyone.
2. When it comes to making hard choices make them take effect in 2015 (that's why the line is this "won't take effect right away"). That way if anything goes wrong the authors won't be around to take the blame and also they can always come up with new legislation that supercedes this one. Kind of like abolishing the death tax for one year in 2010.
Disgusting.
Lets see. $12 billion for energy. $286 billion for a transportation bill. Seems a little imbalanced to me