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Sizing up the Energy Bill 

New provisions offer differing parties reason for optimism, concern

August 15, 2005
by CFACT 

 "Rising energy imports, climate change, and reliance on polluting fossil fuel and nuclear technologies all threaten the nation's economy, national security, public health, and the environment. None of these problems will go away. None will be solved by the new energy bill. In fact, all may well be made worse by it."                               
                            – Ken Bossong, SUN DAY Campaign  

"It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal,"                        
                            –  Anna Aurilio, U.S. PIRG.  

 "You can't please all the people all the time" is a truism most people understand as a reality in life.  Indeed, mess sergeants in days of old didn't even try to cook foods to placate any new recruit's favorite cuisine, but felt compelled to serve up meals that "nobody liked any of the time" just to make their own lives easier.  In a similar vein, the recent energy bill passed by Congress offers many things to offend just about everyone, and the pork contained in it seems to have been prepared primarily to meet the individual tastes of the Congressmen and Senators who cooked it up.  Fortunately, however, the nearly 4 years it took to pass this bill doesn't appear to have all been in vain; in other words, it seems to offer what will probably be enough sustenance to assuage our nation's energy appetite.   

 The provisions contained in the enormous 1,724 page energy bill are many and varied.  Some of them, to be sure, seem peculiar, such as one to slow down the U.S. government review of a proposed bid for American-oil giant Unocal by the Chinese, as well as a change made to lengthen Daylight Savings Time (a move which the Administration says will save millions of barrels of oil each year).  Commenting on each and every one of these provisions would take far too long, but here's a few of the highlights that summarize its contents:

  • Grants tax breaks and incentives of $14.5 billion over the next 10 years, with nearly $9 billion earmarked for oil and gas production, electricity reliability, and coal pollution.
  • Slows down the U.S. government review of a proposed bid for American-oil giant Unocal by Chinese-government owned CNOOC Ltd. 
  • Changes Daylight Savings Time: In 2007, DST will start the second Sunday in March (formerly first Sunday in April) and will end the first Sunday in November (instead of the last Sunday in October). 
  • Eliminates Senate bill language which required improved automotive fleet mileage or other ways to reduce oil demand. However, includes tax credits for hybrid or fuel cell vehicle purchase. 
  • Drops language to open the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to drilling; prohibits oil drilling in the Great Lakes. 
  • Drops language that would have required U.S. utilities to generate 10 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020.
  • Repeals the Public Utility Holding Company Act, which prevents some utility mergers; the Act   was passed during the Depression.
  • Allocates $1.3 billion for an experimental nuclear reactor in Idaho; it would also produce hydrogen fuel.
  • Almost doubles the amount of ethanol used as an additive by 2012 (good for mid-western corn producers). 
  • Expands federal powers (at the expense of state power) by granting Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exclusive authority to approve liquefied natural gas terminals, even if states have environmental or safety concerns. 
  • Mentions concerns about global warning, and promotes technologies that reduce greenhouse gases; however, there are no specific cuts or goals for U.S. CO2 emissions. 

 As one can readily see, the energy bill has pluses and minuses for just about all interested parties.  Advocates of renewable energy, for instance, can be pleased to learn that the bill grants generous tax incentives to those who purchase a hybrid-powered car or outfit their home with new solar panels.  But these same folks will probably be less than thrilled with the bill's allowances for new tax credits for new coal and nuclear power plants.  Similarly, free market advocates can be relieved to see the bill drop onerous requirements for CAFE standards and renewable energy quotas for utilities, but they are no doubt rolling their eyes at the generous subsidies being doled out for ethanol production and the omission of drilling in ANWR (though its supporters insist this will be inserted into another bill later this year).  Thus, there's plenty of room, depending on your mood, to be either critical or amenable to the final product.

 Our nation, of course, depends on safe, abundant and affordable supplies of energy.  Fortunately it isn't the government that is entrusted to deliver it, or we might all be in trouble.  Rather, it is a vibrant free market economy that operates, albeit imperfectly, to ensure we have enough of what we need.  It is for this reason, and not that Congress just passed an energy bill, that we have much reason to be optimistic about the future.

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The future of the bay looks bright: stewardship at its best....

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How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since 1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant breeding...

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How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since 1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant breeding...

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International efforts to ban chicken coops harms birds, farmers...

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Scientific "consensus" and other shady sales tactics promote alarmist theories...

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Scientific "consensus" and other shady sales tactics promote alarmist theories...

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Three California counties reject measures to ban the use of GM crops...

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  • Eco-terrorism hits Maryland: 'Inconvenient Terrorist' latest in long line

    Inconvenient terrorist James Lee who was shot and killed by a SWAT team in the Discovery Channel Building in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the latest of a long line of eco-terrorists

  • An Inconvenient Terrorist

    Armed eco-terrorist who experienced an “awakening” by watching Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth was shot and killed after storming Discovery Channel Building. Radical manifesto condemns 'parasitic children' and human civilization, calling for sterilization and giving the planet back to the squirrels.

  • An ill wind in New Jersey

    Proposed windmill would cost $7 million, stand taller than the Statue of Liberty, and when the wind isn't blowing would need to be kept turning with electricity from a traditional plant in order to avoid mechanical failure.

  • End environmental experiments on Africans!

    Environmentalists are using African parents and children in anti-DDT experiments. They are playing with our lives. So are the government agencies and others who support their policies. This is wrong and immoral. And it is only one of the ways they use Africans as experimental laboratory animals.

  • Prepare for an ice age!

    "Little ice ages" are the flip side of the 1500-year warming cycle. We should take advantage of the favorable climate we are currently enjoying to increase research on high-yield agriculture, biotechnology, water conservation and other advances now only dreamt of.

  • Howard Stern: 'Bring back DDT!'

    Stern argues that New York's bedbug problem is nothing compared to the millions dying from malaria in Africa, quoting extensively from an article by CFACT's Paul Driessen.

  • New York's bedbugs vs. Africa's malaria crisis

    Our obsession with pesticide “risks” has very different consequences for America and Africa.

  • How to save the Chesapeake Bay: Oysters vs. Regulations

    Oysters kept the Bay clean in the past, but the EPA is ignoring this proven solution in favor of big government regulations.

  • New ethanol policy poses heavy cost for consumers

    E15 ethanol mandates would bring huge benefits for ethanol producers at the expense of the rest of us.

  • Empowering the poor in the Yucatan jungle

    Local villagers struggle to survive in Becan, but a new program promises to bring prosperity by unleashing their creativity and energy.

  • The global warming fleecing of the American taxpayer

    The federal government has spent tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on research that has completely failed to affect temperatures or demonstrate an empirical link between human CO2 emissions and global warming.

  • Target: Monckton

    Lord Monckton is under attack, a sure sign that he’s winning on warming. Monckton fights back and refutes Prof. Abraham.

  • New coal mine approved in Utah

    In a victory for the nation’s beleaguered resources industry, Utah officials have approved a permit for a coal mine in their state.

  • EPA set to crack down on farm dust

    Agency believes dust is a pollutant and wants to impose stringent limitations on the amount of dust farmers are allowed to kick up while plying their trade.

  • Climate Depot’s award hat trick

    Marc Morano receives another award for his journalism covering the global warming movement.

  • Climate proposals threaten pursuit of happiness and justice

    New study documents harmful effects of “cap-and-trade” and “endangerment” schemes.