Stop the Senate from Passing a Fossilized Energy Bill

[TOAD6147]

How many wars are we going to fight over oil before our politicians get a clue? Energy is at the heart of global security-in the broadest and most meaningful sense of the term. Without an intelligent energy policy, we will never have a clean environment, a strong economy, and peace.
There's an effort in the Senate to filibuster the
Energy Bill, which was crafted behind closed doors without input from Democrats. By promoting oil and coal, as well as nuclear power, the current bill would set us on a path for more dirty air, war, and health problems, like asthma, for years to come.
Here are just three, among many, provisions of the Energy Bill:

* It opens up the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling;
* It gives over $10 billion in tax breaks to big oil companies;
* It authorizes the Energy Department to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors.

Senators successfully used their filibuster power earlier this year to stop extremists in Congress. The nomination of Migel Estrada to the federal bench was stopped thanks to a Senate filibuster.

Yours for Peace and Sustainable Energy,
Ben Cohen
President, TrueMajority.org
Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream+

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[M_Six]

Actually the bill will not include opening the Alaska refuge. One good thing, at least.

[osprey4]

The bill is still in conference committee. Perhaps if you read about it (from a non-wacko source), you could learn something.

[M_Six]

"Non-wacko" meaning Republican?

[Epidemic]

What is the risk even if a spill occurs in the alaska wild-life refuge.

Generally speaking what will be the long term impact 10 years out.

Will the carabu be wiped out. There have been many oil spills through out history and I do not think any of the areas have not been reclaimed by nature within 20 to 50 years. and none of the affected the food chain to the point of collapse.

So my question is why is there so much resistance to acquiring our own resources.

In fact I wonder what the environmental impact vs probability of disaster shipping the stuff from south america to the US and from opec nations.

Per oil pipline disaster per shipping disaster which is more devastating to the environement. I would think that a couple of safety valves every 3 or 4 miles would limit leaks to perhaps a few hundred thousand gallons of crude. Much more manageable than 3,000,000 barrels of crude floating down the coast.

[RayH]

Don't worry. The price of oil is too low for the US to pump its own oil. Besides, the oil refiners are trying to move their operations overseas, closer to the sources they use.

Who needs oil? Manufacturing is now overseas. Unemployed people don't drive.