Self Serving Idiot Foxes Running the Hen House PAss Energy Bill

Energy Bill

The 1,250-page bill >> D comment* Do you think our Neanderthal Congressman too busy with lobbyyist lunches read even a FRACTION of the 1250 pages?

Senate approves far-reaching energy bill * Do you think something written 5 years ago will be FAR REACHING?

offers $16 billion in tax breaks and incentives to boost domestic production. * WONDERFREAKINFUL!!! JUST what the Energy companies needed TAX BREAKS! Give the damn money to CONSUMERS!!! Isn't gouging the American publice enough incentives with HIGH GAS PUMP PRICES??

"I urge the House and Senate to resolve their differences quickly and get a good bill to my desk before the August recess," Bush said in a statement. *sure, before everyone comes to their senses!

Even as industry leaders and the White House offered kudos, knotty problems like the bill's price tag and lawsuit protection for makers of a water-polluting fuel additive must be solved before Congress can deliver a bill for Bush to sign into law. * More protection for lawsuits for killing people and our environment will make us less fuel efficient!??

"This is the first step on what will be a long road" toward more domestic-energy supplies, Bodman said. *THEY do not get it! WE need LESS OIL....MORE conservation!

This bill sucks! (I can say that!) WHERE IS ONE line on making the idot US car makers INCREASE their mileage EFFICIENCY???

Toyota will kick our bums with a 10 year head start on RATIONAL GAS MISER FUEL/ELECTRIC HYBRIDS.

WHAT need for "alternative fuels?" when it TAKES ENRGY to create energy? like Hydrogen?

A SIMPLE MANDATE from the US GOV to INCREASE AVG gas mileage even just 5 mile per gallon would DO MORE than this pathetic bill being trumpeted as GOOD legislation and just lines the greasy pockets of the in crowd??

Guess what, and that wouldn't cost a damn thing!

Chief among them are a ban on product-defect lawsuits against makers of a water-polluting fuel additive called MTBE, and a provision allowing oil and gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which is a top White House priority. * Do I need to say anything here?

SOme stories from Hybrid owners Technology even better now

20 year LOW in overall fuel economy in this country RUB your eyes, YES written in 2000!!! EVEN MORE SUV'S on road now it must be worse!

"Consumers want cars that have certain performance features. We sell cars that get 40 miles per gallon, but fewer than 2 percent of consumers buy them."Gloria BergquistAlliance of Automobile Manufacturers * taken from last link.....do you think ADVERTISING has anything to do with it!

If we could get all the energy out of a gallon of gasoline and apply it to overcoming the rolling resistance of a car, we could get about 400 miles per gallon. But the internal engine resistance multiplies the force required by roughly five, meaning the best we could hope for is about 80 miles a gallon. The engineering constraints of getting useful work out of expanding hot gases cuts that figure by 50 per cent to about 40 miles per gallon. So better fuels and fuel injection could improve mileage, but not stupendously. FACTOID

YOU make it this far? there's more!

An ambitious agenda to achieve those goals has been produced by Set America Free, a group set up by R. James Woolsey, Frank Gaffney and other national security hawks.
They advocate using existing technologies — not pie-in-the-sky ideas like hydrogen fuel cells — to wean the auto industry from its reliance on petroleum. Hybrid electric cars such as the Toyota Prius, which run on both electric motors and gas engines, already get more than 50 miles per gallon. Coming soon are hybrids that can be plugged into a 120-volt outlet to recharge like a cellphone.

They'll get even better mileage.

Set America Free estimates that if we convert entirely to flexible-fuel, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, U.S. gasoline imports in 20 years will drop by two-thirds.

Here's the kicker!!!!!!!

There is, of course, a catch. Moving to hybrid electric cars won't be cheap. Automakers would have to retool their wares, gas stations would have to add alcohol-fuel pumps, parking lots would have to add electric outlets. Set America Free puts the price tag at about $12 billion over the next four years.

*D comment......that's LESS than the entire energy bill!!!