Amendments to House Energy Bill Announced: RES, No CAFE 2
The proposed amendments to HR 3221 have been submitted and are available for review, as are those for HR 2776.
Of significance for HR 3221:- Both major CAFE standards bills, Markey-Platts, and Hill-Terry, were withdrawn. Barton’s CAFE bill is still on the slate as Amendment #62
- Udall-Platts (HR 969), the Renewable Energy Standard, is on the slate as Amendment #96 and probably has enough votes for passage
- Herseth Sandlin submitted Amendment #81 to change the Renewable Fuels Standard program to require the production of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels by 2022
- Boustany’s Amendment #9 makes the Secretary of Energy a statutory member of the National Security Council
- Shay’s Amendment #105 doubles the funding for the Weatherization Assistance Program
- McCrery submitted the Republican substitute for the tax package as Amendment #7
Thankfully, the radical anti-safety, anti-vehicular choice, anti-personal freedom power grabs known as the Markey-Platts and Hill-Terry are sidelined (for the moment). But this is probably just a temporary ruse to “lull opponents to sleep.” See, http://speedzzter.blogspot.com/2007/08/café-rope-dope-as-invaders-win.html
For more on the problems with CAFE, See, http://speedzzter.blogspot.com/2007/07/pee-eewww-liberal-pew-campaign-spews.html
and http://speedzzter.blogspot.com/2007/04/epa-hack-back-to-dismal-70s-again.html
Yawn. Safety and size are uncorrelated. Vehicular choice isn’t a right on public roads, nor is personal freedom relevant. Furthermore, CAFE doesn’t prohibit vehicles with low MPG capability. But, you knew that.