Fuel Economy Bill Finally Passes in Congress, Ethanol Gets a Boost
December 18, 2007 at 8:26 pm | Posted in Politics and Policy, Transportation | Leave a commentTags: auto, cars, energy, energy bill, fuel, fuel economy
Today, congress approved the first increase in automobile fuel economy in 32 years. This is the beginning of a huge change for the auto industry.
Of all the energy bills floating about in D.C. lately, the fuel economy bill has always seemed the most reasonable and likely to pass – it was just a matter of finding a balance between what the automakers could handle economically and what eco-savers wanted.
The energy bill, which intends to boost mileage by 40 percent to 35 miles per gallon (likely that would be the average MPG of all an automaker’s vehicles in a certain class), passed the House 314-100 and now goes to the White House, following the Senate’s approval last week. Bush is actually expected to sign off on this one, at least according to a statement from the White House. I figure they know what they’re talking about.
Our country has finally realized that regardless of belief about global warming, we need to stop depending on foreign oil. When most of the middle east hates us, and that’s where a lot of the oil lies, it’s a good idea to do what we can to find alternate resources.
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The Energy Bill is Stuck.
October 13, 2007 at 4:50 pm | Posted in Politics and Policy | 3 CommentsTags: cleantech, energy, energy bill, government, politics
Passing a energy bill through the White House is no easy task. The Senate and the House each passed their own versions of the energy bill in the past few months, so now we’re waiting on the Democratic leaders to appoint a committee to figure out how to meld these two versions of the bill into one. Sounds like that’d be pretty simple to do, right? Um, not exactly.
“Unfortunately … it doesn’t appear that we will be able to get a conference,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday. “But … that doesn’t mean we won’t be going forward.”
(Good luck Pelosi, you’ll need it.)
The new plan is that Democratic leaders will hold closed-door talks to draft a new energy bill they hope can win approval in both houses of Congress. Pelosi said earlier this week she hopes to pass an energy bill by year’s end.
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