On Earth Day, because the GOP & Bush are so eco-friendly...

Bill highlights

Major provisions of the energy bill passed 249 to 183 by the House:

• Open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling.

• Provide $8 billion in tax breaks over 10 years, mostly for oil, gas, nuclear, coal and electric utilities.

• Provide product liability protection for makers of MTBE against lawsuits stemming from the gasoline additive contaminating drinking water.

• Require refiners to use 5 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol by 2012, a 20% increase over what the industry is expected to produce this year.

• Expand Daylight Saving Time by two months. It would start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.

• Require mandatory reliability standards for electric power lines, instead of industry self-regulation.

• Give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission clear authority to override states and local officials in locating liquefied natural gas import terminals.

• Provide $2 billion in royalty relief to oil and gas industry over 10 years for research on ways to recover oil and gas from deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

• Provide a tax credit of as much as $2,000 for homeowners who install more energy-efficient windows, doors and insulation.

From the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-energy22apr22,1,1283425.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

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• Expand Daylight Saving Time by two months. It would start on the first Sunday in March and end on the last Sunday in November.

how does Windows know when Daylight savigns time begins, and will this screw up every computer in the world?

chop down a tree, posion a river, and do it all while driving your SUV!

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