NEW ENERGY BILLS: POLITICS AS USUAL
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Fresh from the American Solar Energy Society annual conference, it is especially hard to see the Republicrats and Demmicans bickering over ridiculosities in their competing versions of a “new” Energy Bill.
After hearing former Senator Gary Hart’s passionate condemnation of the nation’s so-called energy policy and Van Jones’ stirring call for a Green New Deal, and Jigar Shah’s frank description of the sorry state of the U.S. transmission infrastructure, it is hard to take the Senate’s ideas of solutions very seriously.
Senate Republicans’ want to drill in the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) just to get a few extra months of oil. They also want to legislate a requirement to produce coal-derived gasoline,
