Renewables and Tax Provisions Likely Dropped From Energy Bill:
More details on the likely energy bill compromise are emerging. It appears that the renewable electricity standard and oil subsidy rollback provisions of the energy bill (H.R. 6/H.R. 3221), are being dropped. (The fate of the renewable production tax credit is unclear.)
See the article for much more detail, assuming you have the stomach for it.
In all seriousness, I have no bloody idea what to make of this. I thought at minimum we would see a barely acceptable energy bill, not this slow-motion train wreck that destroys every hint of progress, one step at a time.
Nothing, and I mean Not One Freakin’ Thing could better illustrate than this energy bill debacle the desperate need in this country for campaign finance reform. Kill the influence of special interest groups in US politics and we’ll see the end of the lock incumbents have on their offices, as well as the end of legislative assaults like this, where politicians vote for the short-term interests of corporations and not the long term interests of the country as a whole.
Hey Canada–you got room for me and my wife??? I’m only a few miles away, and we’re nice people, really.
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November 29th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Hey there’s room for you up here all right.
But it can take a while to get up here. One homeschooling couple we met took
6 years to escape the USA hellhole and in the mean time, with the US greenback
in freefall and home prices tanking, they lost a lot of money.
Mind you we’ve got Bush lite up here and we’ve been “common sense revolution(ed)”
up the back side by a Conservative government which taught me what (modern)
conservative means - take public money and give it to private companies to make
profits. We used to have a “progressive conservative” party federally and
they recently changed to the regressive conservatives. Ok they call themselves
simply conservatives but they’re regressive in the way they talk and walk.
We’re not looking ahead to good times with a hog on every plate and in times
like that there is always a resurgence in fundamental religions (and regressive
governments?) it seems.
Something’s got to give. We need a one child policy. We need to stop immigration.
We need to get our own house in order; cut our GHGs by a factor of 10 and the
easiest way is to get our population down by a factor of 2 or more.
But the rich leeches are still sucking at the corpse - the blood isn’t fully
out of it yet. We’ve not exported all of our jobs quite yet. We’ve not driven
everyone into slave labour, errr service sector, jobs yet where they compete
with highschool kids and foreigners for low pay.
It’s about time that we admitted that radical capitalism has failed - that
the commons (air, water, soil) have been destroyed more thoroughly by radical
capitalism than by anything else.
We need a federal/world government that stops the pollution, the GHGs and leaves
our kids a planet that is not toxic.
There was an interesting comment I ran across recently - how CFCs could so easily
have been bromide based; except that bromide was just slightly more expensive.
It’s also about 46x more potent at destroying ozone. If bromine had been
chosen we would likely not have an ozone layer by this point.
It brings me back to the book Future Shock - we need to test out new technologies
before we deploy them worldwide. We need to consider the impact on society,
on people and the planet.
But the lowest price is the law. Keep shopping. There is nothing to see here.