That’s what Mother Jones is reporting
Looking to use the Gulf oil spill as an impetus to act on climate and energy legislation, the Senate expects next week to start work on a revamped “BP spill bill” —one that includes both tougher regulation of the industry and the climate and energy provisions outlined last month by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).
Mike Allen teased this out in this morning’s email, noting that the new plan to combine the two issues operates “on the theory the bill will be hard to oppose.” A Democratic Senate aide confirmed to Mother Jones that this is the anticipated plan: combine the standing legislation with the energy bill passed last summer and a new spill-specific package.
Are you ready for $5, $6, $7, or even higher gas prices? Are you ready for higher energy prices? This would surely help the economy, eh? It’ll be great when those in the work force cannot afford to get to work, and those looking for work cannot afford to drive to interviews. Hey, never let a good crisis go to waste.
Supposedly, at some unknown point in the future, we will no longer depend on fossil fuels. I know, we can rely on wood fuels, like they are turning to in Europe, which has had these nutty pieces of AGW legislation for a long time, yet, little in the way of actual alternative energy sources.
Welp, looks like we will have to revert back to the early 1800s.
Steam engines. We are all going to have to invest in our own personal forests. With daily commutes to work, that will eat up alot of wood.
Dang it. Forgot that the government hates wood and has deemed soot a health hazard and has nearly banned open fireplaces.
Well, I have always wanted to work from home. Except, kind of hard to be a computer tech when stuck at home.
Nothing like controlling the populace with energy prices.
Captainfish, I used to know someone who could link to another person’s comp from their own, and do remote work on it to repair it. I take it you don’t do that kind of comp work?
Anyway, you’d need a windmill and probably a bike w/generator, to power your comp. Personally I believe that per-household windmills work better. The bird-shredder farms and lack of useable energy during this past winter in England, thanks to useless windmill farms (.02% power generated!), not to mention that liberals keep working to Kill wind power wherever they can (boxer, kennedy, etc), makes it pretty certain we won’t be counting on city-scale wind power any time soon.
YOU’RE RIGHT, Otter!!
This whole thing makes the future hard to fathom knowing that we were once the greatest nation on the earth with many allies.
But, computers will be a thing of the past. Who wants to waste their stored electrons on powering a computer when it could mean losing power for the water pump, cooling the meat from your last hunt, keeping the IV and respiratory pumps going for grandma, or even that smuggled radio to listen to banned conservative talkers expose government illegalities.
Life will no doubt be “fundamentally changed”.
No surprise here. The Obama administration is full of community organizers who teethed on Cloward and Piven’s strategy of “NEVER let a good crisis go to waste.”
The problem once again is these whackos in the White House don’t get it. This was a foreign corporation 40 miles out to sea who created this fiasco on the beaches.
Once again they do not get the fact that out of 21 million bbls of oil per day we use…..3/4’s of that is converted into gasoline.
Stopping our drilling. Will do NOTHING to assuage our thirst for OIL. Building 1 trillion wind towers, a billion Nuke plants will not stop our need for ONE DROP OF OIL.
Again…..they do not care….they simply want to drive up the cost of Gasoline until the people cry uncle and government can step in and nationalize all the auto companies.
NEVER…EVAH……LET a GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE!!!!……EVAH!!
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