Yesterday I said that I would continue my post regarding energy.

Yesterday, the senate closed a motion to proceed towards an energy bill and will begin debate on this subject. To many citizens this is the third most critical issue behind the Iraq situation and personal finances, but in all honesty there’s no Iraq situation without our need for energy and you really don’t even HAVE personal finances without the energy to get to and from work and to move goods and services, etc.

This is going to be a very interesting process because the skeptic in me is pretty interested to see how this proceeds. The real interest (to me) is going to be who gets preferred treatment in this bill. The bill will focus on:

  • Boosting domestic renewable fuel supplies in a manner that will reduce lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions and spur regional diversity of biofuels production and infrastructure.
  • Enhance economy wide energy efficiency in a way that will reduce our nations imports of foreign oil and provide significant savings to consumers.
  • Invest in the carbon capture and storage technologies that will help cut back on green house gas emissions that contribute to global warming.

    • I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve got a lot of fear about this. First, whatever the government is going to legislate into our daily lives is going to be thought out based on back room deals, not what is truly good for the American people. Second, things are a bit early in the whole global warming research to legislate anything at this point. The Senate is made up of lawyers, not scientists so whatever they legislate at this point is going to be based on the panic being raised by the environmental nazis.

    The consensus opinion regarding any ramifications of global warming is that the oceans might increase by an inch or two, not the 28 feet of the most extreme estimates.

    Just remember, only 25 years ago not only would Saccarine give you cancer, but we were also heading for an ice age. This flip flop on where the climate is forecast to be going makes me think that we will waste every penny that we put into trying to prevent something that’s going to happen anyway, but I’m worried that the senate and the house will do the exact wrong thing — forcing us to use bio fuels like ethanol will drive up the price of everything that we use corn for, like food, cattle feed which will drive up the price of beef. AND we give developing countries like India, China, Vietnam, etc. a complete pass on the subject.