Senate overwhelmingly approves energy bill

From CNN:

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- After years of stalemate, Congress on Friday sent President Bush a national energy plan touted by supporters as providing a diverse mix of fuels, new jobs, cleaner burning coal and the next generation of nuclear reactors.

The bill now ready for President Bush's signature won't stem high energy prices that have been viewed as a growing political concern, both in Congress and at the White House.

The Senate approved the $12.3 billion legislation 74-26, though some Democrats said they voted for the measure reluctantly because of its cost and its tepid response to reducing the country's consumption of oil -- now more than 20 million barrels a day, more than half imported.



*sigh* Maybe you should vote "NO" once in a while DINOs!
:puke:

Corporations will still more tax dollars and federal lands at low price and will destroy the environment even more than they are currently.

At least they got the ANWR drilling and MTBE shield out of it. But god knows, in these times of absolutely RECORD oil company profits, Big Petro would be at death's door without those tax incentives....

R we out here, bustin' our asses trying 2 save what's left of our country and these assholes R hell-bent on giving it away?

How we will accomplish this I do not know.
From the looks of things it may already be way too late.

of the turncoats.

From now on, I have no party, just politicians with whom I agree.

screw the dems and their pandering republican lite message. the environment didn't even make it onto their platform. after a lifetime spent as a yellow-dog democrat it still hurts, but they're almost as much a party of corporate schills as the GOPosse.

they're all bought and paid for . . . representing their corporate sponsors and their own personal greed instead of the American people (i.e. you and me!) . . .

where does it end? . . . when will Congress extract itself from the corporate teat and actually do what they were elected to do? . . . probably only when we vote them all out and replace them with people who actually care about this country and the planet more than their narrow self-interest . . .

Democrats who voted for this bill, for the bankruptcy bill, and/or for the war in Iraq will NEVER get my vote! . . . not for re-election, not for higher office, not even in online polls . . . they're dead to me . . .

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I wrote. I called. I hope they listened. You hear that Kohl? You're up next year buddy and things haven't been looking so good so far for you, what with Tommy Thompson back in the state and all.

but Russ is :toast:

Votes appear to be based on state interests, FL no on offshore drilling, NE & SW not much to gain, etc...

Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sununu (R-NH)
Wyden (D-OR)

Compared to the money being stolen by the BFEE in Iraq.

to the incredible subsidies that the oil, gas and coal industry already get from the govt.

This bill also DECREASES funds available for conservation and alternative energy...

It's what we'd expect from a bill written in Cheney's office by the grand polluters of our world...

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00213

Obama and Durbin both YES??????? Hoping for the ethanol re-elect no doubt. grrr :banghead:

Geeeeesh.

Was glad to know that Clinton, Feinstein, and Kerry were NAYS. Also pleased to learn that non-Dems Jeffords, MCCAIN, and Sununu were NAYS.

Happiest thought of the day: McCain NAY
Most depressing thought: Obama YEA

After this debacle, I felt a little like Jean Charles de Menezes' family and friends must have felt after he received 8 shots from London police: WHAT OVERKILL! WHAT A WASTE!

on the way home tonight. The person (female) talked about this as though it was a good thing and how hard shrub worked for it. I thought I was listening to Faux News on NPR.

we all work for the oil barons. This energy bill proves it. Tom DeLay's hometown (Sugarland) got a big fat bonus from this bill. And the oil companies got tax credits.
No wonder the oil barons bankroll the hits on Democratic candidates. From Clinton to McCain to Kerry, the oil execs. pay for the dirty work.
And now they get their payoff.

time to fight harder, time not to give up hope.

We're just the working class. All we can do is keep on being vocal and telling them with our donations, or lack of, what we think of their representation.

Which my be one of the few things good about it.

but don't tell that to all the reactionary screamers who'll be posting on this thread trashing Democrats.

In this sense of the word, paying mobsters not to burn down your store could also be "compromise"