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A Disaster Opportunity - BP Spill and Obama's Climate Bill
2010-05-07
Some environmentalists and liberal lawmakers believe the BP oil spill has handed President Obama a significant political opportunity to renew his stalled energy and climate bill, and are urging him to push for sweeping legislation to move the country away from reliance on oil and other fossil fuels.

The climate bill that White House officials have been negotiating called for limited greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, transportation fuels and eventually factories. It included large incentives for drilling offshore, nuclear power plant construction and so-called "clean-coal" technology. It also would have required set levels of renewable electricity use nationwide. The bill included several sweeteners to minimize the cost for industry.

Still, the nation's reliance on gasoline means choosing between imported oil or increased domestic production — and there, the gulf spill may have an impact. All signs from Capitol Hill suggest that Obama's expanded drilling plans will find little support in light of the BP leak.

Environmental groups want the administration to push for enhanced oil recovery on land, but not ANWR especially if gasoline prices spike again and public pressure mounts for more domestic production.

Many economists say Obama's best chance to reframe the energy debate — and dramatically cut oil use — could also be the least popular—a large gasoline tax on gasoline, with the proceeds dedicated to alternative fuel research, reducing the federal budget deficit, or even refunded to consumers according to their needs.
Posted by:Bobby

#2  heh heh, thank you, Al-Aska Paul.
Posted by: Frank G   2010-05-07 19:42  

#1  Every disaster is an opportunity, so said a wise man to my friend after he survived the flying cans in the Safeway store during the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

Obama will use this disaster for promoting more of his agenda. Crap and Raid, etc etc, the bottom line being that we will spend way beyond our means and wind up JUST LIKE GREECE, in an accelerated fashion.

The Grateful Dead were prophetic:

Drivin' that train
High on cocaine
Casey Jones you better
watch your speed
Trouble ahead
Trouble behind
and you know that notion
just crossed my mind

Trouble with you is
The trouble with me
Got two good eyes
but we still don't see
Come round the bend
You know it's the end
The fireman screams and
The engine just gleams


/Greetings to Commodore Frank

Heh.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2010-05-07 16:40  

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