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 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...
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!
Can you point out anything in this bill that won't make things worse and will actually make them better?
The Republican old north slope drilling trick revived. - Tom
January 11, 2003,
The New U.S. Energy Policy snip
Posted by John Richter on January 11, 2003 08:50 AM
Seeing that something had to be done, Richard Nixon announced “Project Independence” in 1974, with the goal of achieving “energy self-sufficiency by 1980”. Recalling the Manhattan Project, Nixon declared that American science, technology, and industry could free the United States from dependence on foreign oil. The project included the controversial plan to drill for oil in Alaska’s North Slope and opened up vast off-shore areas to oil exploration.