Okay, Energy Bill up for debate now with Domenici

[Skidmore]

trying to sell it as "reasonable"--"not perfect", but reasonable. Dare we hope that the Dems will fight for more than reasonable? Sigh.

[Warpy]

1. Domenici is an oil whore

and a place holder who should have been voted out of office a decade ago. He's an embarrassment to this state.

[Toots]

2. These guys spent eight years blocking energy policy

"CONGRESS HAS FAILED TO ACT TO IMPROVE AMERICA’S ENERGY SECURITY: The Republican leadership has failed to act on key elements of the President’s long-term energy policy, including: tax incentives to consumers for the purchase of energy-efficient cars, homes and appliances; comprehensive electricity restructuring; and reauthorization of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Over the past seven years, Congress has approved only 12 percent of the increased funding proposed by the President for energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Now, the Republican leadership wants to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling – despoiling one of America’s last wild places for a short-term supply of oil. Furthermore, they continue to cut programs critical to meeting our long-term energy needs"

http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/new/html/Tue_Oct_3_130025_2000.html

Really good site to see just how the GOP blocked real energy policy.

[Skidmore]

3. Now he's trying to say the Rs will promote

conservation.

[amandabeech]

4. Yes, and Bill Nelson sounds like he and others are ready to filibuster

over opening the eastern Gulf and the continental shelves to drilling. He's citing national security over the combat aircraft training areas in the eastern Gulf and off Georgia and northern Florida.