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Bush Signs Massive Energy Bill Into Law
Yahoo news -AP Newswire ^ | Aug 8, 2:12 PM ET | DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 08/08/2005 2:53:32 PM PDT by flyingspacemonkey

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1 posted on 08/08/2005 2:53:33 PM PDT by flyingspacemonkey
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To: flyingspacemonkey

The new conservatives really know how to bring home the bacon.


2 posted on 08/08/2005 2:55:54 PM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: flyingspacemonkey

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.


3 posted on 08/08/2005 2:56:28 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (If "pro" means for and "con" means against, then Con-gress is against Pro-gress of judges)
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Bush Signs Massive Energy Bill Into Law

If I don't start feeling massively energetic right away, it's Bush's fault, right?

4 posted on 08/08/2005 2:56:48 PM PDT by Luddite Patent Counsel (Theyre digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.)
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To: flyingspacemonkey

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!


5 posted on 08/08/2005 2:58:00 PM PDT by flyingspacemonkey (IMAO: Podcasting, Done RIGHT. http://IMAOpodcast.com)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel

Or Rove's. Natch.


6 posted on 08/08/2005 3:00:45 PM PDT by flyingspacemonkey (IMAO: Podcasting, Done RIGHT. http://IMAOpodcast.com)
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To: alwaysconservative
It's a start in the right direction, and that's better than heading the other way.

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.

7 posted on 08/08/2005 3:02:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (If there was a problem, yo! I'll solve it!!)
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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...


8 posted on 08/08/2005 3:03:05 PM PDT by tobyhill (The War on Terrorism is not for the weak.)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel
it's Bush's fault, right?

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.

9 posted on 08/08/2005 3:04:50 PM PDT by evad ( PC KILLS..and so do liberal judges.)
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To: flyingspacemonkey

I think we need to elect a Jewish President so that there will be no PORK in these massive fraudulent bills


10 posted on 08/08/2005 3:08:06 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (If Bush is such a conservative, why the hell is he spending like a Liberal?)
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To: flyingspacemonkey

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?


11 posted on 08/08/2005 3:08:28 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Seeking the truth here folks.)
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rough crowd in here...


12 posted on 08/08/2005 3:09:24 PM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Soylent Green is People!")
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To: evad

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!


13 posted on 08/08/2005 3:11:04 PM PDT by princess leah (\)
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To: flyingspacemonkey
Not a bill for today or tomorrow, but for the future.

Just exactly when in the future are we talking about. 2010? 2050? 2525? 3007? 4015? When?

14 posted on 08/08/2005 3:12:30 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (The government and courts are stealing your freedom & liberty!)
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To: alwaysconservative

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.


15 posted on 08/08/2005 3:12:58 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: flyingspacemonkey
"When we expand ethanol" Archer Daniels Midland will take home some more booty... But the energy required to produce ethanol is greater than that which is gleaned from that same ethanol. Ethanol is just more porkpie for contributors. Big achievement. Rah rah.
16 posted on 08/08/2005 3:16:08 PM PDT by GhostofWCooper (enough's enough. Deport them and build the fence.)
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But for the first time, utilities will be required to comply with federal reliability standards for its electricity grid

Sounds like the FED is going to force the utilities to buy the overpriced subsidized oil.
Looks like $12 billion in corporate welfare to me!
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17 posted on 08/08/2005 3:29:21 PM PDT by mugs99
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To: alwaysconservative
It's a start in the right direction, and that's better than heading the other way.

Yep! Now we need to build the Cape Wind project for all the Limousine Liberals on Nantucket to enjoy, and practice what they preach!

18 posted on 08/08/2005 3:31:12 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
I think we need to elect a Jewish President so that there will be no PORK in these massive fraudulent bills

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.

19 posted on 08/08/2005 3:33:30 PM PDT by mountn man (Everyone brings joy into a room. Some when they enter. Others when they leave)
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Sounds like the FED is going to force the utilities to buy the overpriced subsidized oil

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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20 posted on 08/08/2005 3:37:11 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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