Conservative Coalition Forms to Fight Energy Bill

7 Dec
2007

Conservatives have been hard at work this week to derail the Democrats’ new energy bill. Despite winning approval in the House yesterday, the measure failed to get cloture in the Senate today on a 53-42 vote. However, it’s not dead yet. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could bring it up as early as next week.

My colleagues at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis today released an interactive, state-by-state gas map that reveals the legislation making its way through Congress would increase the price of gas from an early December average of $3.06 per gallon to $5.02 in 2016. And that’s not all that’s bad with the bill. Ben Lieberman documents a variety of problems, from new fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to a greatly expanded ethanol mandate to new renewable standards for electricity. Jack Spencer weighs in with his thoughts on the restrictions Congress would impose on the production of electricity.

Heritage isn’t alone in this fight. The American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform and the National Taxpayers Union have all weighed in against the bill.

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Fred Hammel

December 9th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

Before 1972,90% of all families own one car, starting 1972 women were encourage to enter the workforce, and abandon their children.so they could buy their car, women all most never went into debt before 1972. With all these new cars on the road( cars double)we have not built a refinery since 1976. The head of General Motors was on 60 minutes, he said women buy 80% of all new cars, and women waste 70% of all gas in this Country.

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