Energy Bill

[Superman]

I'm spending time with my mother in Spokane, and I've actually watched television this week. She likes to watch McNews (Fox). Like so many, she likes to be entertained. And like so many, she doesn't see the difference. No kidding, on the objective "fair and balanced" news program (not the O'Reilly and Hannity crap), the Dems were openly criticized for focusing on Guantanamo Bay where hundreds of people are held with no hearing, no evidence presented, etc, while there is righteous UN bashing to be done. Unbelievable.

But the most hilarious part came when Bush is shown appealing to Congress to pass an Energy Bill. Republicans in Congress are abandoning The Dolt on this one too (we all know about the withdraw from Iraq slap in the face they're starting to give your darling president). Apparently, even the two Republican houses of Congress envision energy policy to be a bit more expensive than Dubya would prefer. As you all know, Dubya is getting frantic in his quest to get something, anything, done under his "administration," and I use that term losely of course. He cannot support the funding his party is considering for energy conservation (now there's a shocker, eh?). And he also cannot support their oil import reduction goals for the future. Another huge surprize.

Anybody less than crystal clear on what his agenda is, and has always been?

[IROC]

NPR ran a piece the other day that focused on Dubya's inability to get anything done - even with the Republican majority in Congress. Speaks volumes, I think.

[gavinlit]

So for someone down the other end of the world, could you describe the energy policy being pushed. I'm curious to see how it relates to the debate that's happening over here at the moment.

[Moneyguy1]

I, too, would like to really understand the energy program being offered to the public. Seems as if there is resistance on the part of Washington to understand that the problem is simply basing the economy on petroleum, period. Charitably, it appears there is too much coziness with big oil to look elsewhere.

But...........

What would happen if the country entered into the equivalent of another Manhattan Project to come up with alternative methods of energy production? To make it viable, let the energy current producers compete in the process. Perhaps then the oil companies would then not be so fearful of the results.

[David]

I expect there to be another source of energy in our lifetime, but I doubt it's hydrogen.

The best line I've heard on the issue of running out of oil and moving to another energy source is: "the stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones"