Posted on 08/08/2005 2:53:32 PM PDT by flyingspacemonkey
The new conservatives really know how to bring home the bacon.
It's a start in the right direction, and that's better than heading the other way.
Now, if we can just get drilling in ANWR passed through the budget bill (where it is placed to be filibuster proof), life would be good.
If I don't start feeling massively energetic right away, it's Bush's fault, right?
Talk about your timing.
In this week's MP3 ,IMAO, a group of political satirists, are poking fun at oil prices, alternative energy sources, and the government bureaucrats that drive up energy costs at:
http://www.imaopodcast.com/podcast/IMAO-Aug8.mp3
The August 8 show (TO LISTEN, YOUR PC MUST HAVE SPEAKERS) features:
-IMAO strikes oil but will the money change them?
-Dubya poses as a Canadian to bring oil prices down in the USA
-Alternative energy sources from Frank, Sarah, SpaceMonkey, Harvey, and RightWingDuck
-RightWingDuck answers listener questions on the energy industry
And more!
Or Rove's. Natch.
If you're a tax accountant, IRS agent, former Carter administration official, or President of an energy corporation, then you're right, it is a step in the right direction.
You're right, we needed an energy bill but I disagree with giving corporate welfare to companies that have already made record profits. For years now the energy companies have claimed that it was regulation preventing them from alternative research and expanded production so once the regulations were absolved there was no need for the government to give them money, loans, incentives, etc...
YUP!
I felt the same way but I thought it wuz cuz I missed my bran muffin. But then I remembered, IT's Bush's Fault!
I'll reserve judgment on this bill until I see how it pans out.
I think we need to elect a Jewish President so that there will be no PORK in these massive fraudulent bills
When he arrived, Bush took a tour of the Energy Department's national solar thermal test facility, which was built in 1976 in response to the oil embargo and energy crisis. Bush walked in a field of mirrored solar panels, wearing shirt sleeves and sunglasses to ward off the bright midday sun.
The last plan built a new building to solve the problem, seems to have worked, did we get any new buildings this time?
rough crowd in here...
Well, if it helps put alternative concepts to gasoline in helping the average American mindset perhaps it will be good...But, I am disappointed that the republicans didn't stand firm on ANWR drilling. It's a fight we need to win and win soon!
Just exactly when in the future are we talking about. 2010? 2050? 2525? 3007? 4015? When?
It's a start in the right direction, and that's better than heading the other way....Now, if we can just get drilling in ANWR passed through the budget bill (where it is placed to be filibuster proof), life would be good.
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Agreed -- but if it does not happen, we have been sold 1700+ pages of useless political excrement. Only one thing will have won -- Bush's legacy.
Yep! Now we need to build the Cape Wind project for all the Limousine Liberals on Nantucket to enjoy, and practice what they preach!
That would be racist. As everybody knows its the 6 million jews in Israel holding 1 billion Mooselimbs down. Everything that is wrong in the world is because of things that the Jooooos have done. And a jewish president would finally prove that the United States is just a puppet of the Jooooos.
Oyvay my head hurts trying to think of this stupidity.
Huh, that doesn't make any sense. If anything updating the grid would use less energy, due to technological advances.
Also when the enviromentalists are unhappy, I'm happy.
Supporters of the energy bill say it will revive America's nuclear power industry, boost oil drilling, convert coal into a cleaner-burning fuel and use home-grown, corn-based ethanol to stretch gasoline supplies.
But environmental groups and some Democrats criticize its extensive tax breaks, subsidies and loan guarantees as a lavish gift to energy companies already enjoying near-record profits.
"Big energy lobbyists may be cheering the bill's enactment, but ordinary Americans had better hold fast to their wallets," said Anna Aurilio, legislative director of U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "As gasoline prices careen out of control, the bill keeps America speeding down the wrong road toward more oil consumption, more drilling, and more pollution."
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