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| Author | Date | Time | Title | |
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| B Ruberton | 2007-06-22 | 20:01:00 | Senate Energy Bill – Long Mileage, Short Vision |
| Last night’s Senate passage of a broad energy bill is a nice step in the right direction but it is still woefully short of being the policy this country needs. A chance was missed to direct some real money from the over compensated oil companies to the fledgling renewable energy companies. Even with the cat out of the bag on global warming and even with the increasing bi-partisan concerns about our future security position with a country that is run on oil, many Senators still felt it was more important to support the oil lobbyists than vote to support the funding to change our countries energy direction.
At long last the changing of fuel mileage standards will certainly help our environment and our dependency on oil but we really need to be encouraging the next generation of transportation technology. Sadly, this bill, should it make it into law, will be only a small step, one that should have been taken decades ago. |
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