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S. 10, The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (9 comments ↓)

  • This bill has been mooted by the passage of another bill on the same subject or by other events. Check 'Related Bills' below to see if other bills on this subject have been passed into law. Mooted: 7/8/2005.
  • This item is from the 109th Congress (2005-2006) and is no longer current. Comments, voting, and wiki editing have been disabled, and the cost/savings estimate has been frozen.

The legislation would authorize funding for several programs aimed at energy production, conservation, and research and development. It would authorize the use of energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs), make several changes to the regulatory framework governing the nation's electricity system, and establish a mandate for the use of renewable fuels.


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Jefferson

June 12, 2005, 1:25pm (report abuse)

This is probably pure pork barrel spending. If the government would stop meddling in energy markets and just get all the way out, we would have plentiful energy resources, and if the enviros want to they can spend extra for solar energy or whatever they please.

culture

June 13, 2005, 9:29am (report abuse)

we've got to do something to get on a path to energy sustainability. ending the SUV car culture. consevation. i don't think people would do that without some guidance, Jeferson. i'm proud to be an enviro

Fidel

June 13, 2005, 9:41am (report abuse)

I'm with culture...only so much carbon resource left in the world, and then we're all f**ked. Time for the proletariat to put down their remotes, get off there ass and realize that the revolution will not be televised.

Miton Friedman

June 13, 2005, 10:36am (report abuse)

This is great discussion. These dumb enviros think they are actually paying for alternative energy. Who do you think owns all the patents for alternative energy? We do you dumb*sses. This bill is getting the people that hate us corporate moguls, to give us more money, so that we don't have to use our own profits. More smoke and more mirrors please. We got the electorate so f**king confused now they don't know what to do, and anything they do eventually benefits us. I am GOD! I created this system! I want the credit. The University of Chicago is getting more applicants than ever. More evidence that I am GOD. I have completely, and almost singlehandedly, deluded an entire nation. And I have enough prophets (and profits) to carry this system to the global theater.

Jefferson

June 13, 2005, 12:06pm (report abuse)

Whoever the crank is using Milton Friedman's name has not done their homework. If you really picked apart bills like this, you'd probably find that they are neither good for the enviroment or for taxpayers. Pork takes money from all of us to give to corporations. No one is for that except the lobbyists.

Nelson Mandela

June 13, 2005, 2:01pm (report abuse)

If the government just stopped 'meddling' in energy, than we would have a complete monopoly and price fixing would be legal...just like the DeBeers and a few would control a resource that we all need to survive. Jefferson, any other stupid suggestions? Pick up a book and read about private control of natural resources. It's been the demise of every other civilization before ours.

Jefferson

June 18, 2005, 1:21pm (report abuse)

Thanks for your vivid imagination 'Nelson.' I bet you can't name one example where private control of natural resources led to the demise of a civilization. I bet you can't name one civilization where natural resources have been privately controlled. Every civilization we've seen so far has had state control of resources and everything else.

culture

June 19, 2005, 12:48pm (report abuse)

man must learn to live again with the land, rather than on it and over it

gotherebyaccident

December 25, 2005, 5:27am (report abuse)

holy crap! you guys are full of yourselves!!! let the "real" world kick your butt for a few years and see why all this is so hard to make right. There are no simple solutions to complex problems.

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