When Senator John Kerry released a draft of S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, he told reporters, “I don’t know what cap-and-trade means.” That was a pretty strange thing to say, seeing as how he wrote the legislation, and its centerpiece is a cap-and-trade energy rationing scheme.
In the month since, it doesn’t seem as though Kerry bothered to learn anything about the bill he supposedly wrote. Yesterday he told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee…
Last week Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) became chairman of the Agriculture Committee, after Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), the previous chair, accepted the gavel at the Health, Labor, Education and Pension Committee (vacated by the passing of Ted Kennedy).
Lincoln becomes the first female to chair this powerful committee, and her ascension to the top-spot will have a big impact on the country’s energy policy.
For almost a decade, the Senate Ag Committee has been the primary benefactor of ethanol, a fuel made…
We’re getting closer to an Armageddon climate policy scenario. Last week ten Democratic Senators told the President that they will not support any global warming legislation that does not protect domestic industry with carbon tariffs. This is a big step toward an economically ruinous trade war.
At issue is the $45 trillion climate question: Who’s gonna pay to green the global economy? The combustion of hydrocarbon fuels-which accounts for 85% of the world’s primary energy-is the “cause” of the global warming…
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