{"id":1487,"date":"2005-07-27T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/07\/27\/energy-bill-almost-there\/"},"modified":"2005-07-27T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T16:06:00","slug":"energy-bill-almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/energy-bill-almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Bill Almost There&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did pretty well keeping up with the Energy bill&#8217;s movement through the Senate, but fell behind on the activities of the conference committee meetings to hammer out differences between the House and Senate versions.  Bob at Howling has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howlingthemoon.org\/archives\/2005\/07\/details_of_fina.html\">an overview<\/a> of the final bill, and it doesn&#8217;t look pretty.  While the right-wing looney crowd led by House Majority leader Tom DeLay didn&#8217;t get their waiver of liability for MTBE producers, this still looks like a giveaway to the traditional energy industry.  True, language to open ANWR was dropped (as legislators would rather hide it in the filibuster-proof budget bill), but so was braod language that  &#8220;requiring the federal government to find ways to cut US oil demand, or to require better fuel mileage on new sport utility vehicles and other gas-guzzlers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ezra Klein has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/let_us_all_give.html\">an overview of the bill<\/a>, and claims it&#8217;s nothing but corporate pork in the sheep&#8217;s clothing of progressive-sounding language.  Scott Shields at MyDD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydd.com\/story\/2005\/7\/26\/13432\/3967\">takes a look<\/a> at how renewable power fared in the bill &#8212; not well, in short.  If you find other commentary on this stinker, let me know.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/energy\" rel=\"tag\">energy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/US+Congress\" rel=\"tag\">US Congress<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/legislation\" rel=\"tag\">legislation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Politics\" rel=\"tag\">politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/partner?partner_id=29592&amp;cgi=product&amp;isbn=0887847242\">Buy Andrew Heintzman&#8217;s <em>Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything<\/em> at Powells.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did pretty well keeping up with the Energy bill&#8217;s movement through the Senate, but fell behind on the activities of the conference committee meetings to hammer out differences between&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Energy Bill Almost There... &#8226; 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