"Pelosi: 'This is a choice between yesterday and tomorrow': Energy bill promises to change how we live" Headline from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday, December 19th.<br />
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I don't know about you but I've had about enough of government changing the way I live. From the moment I get up in the morning, until I go to sleep at night, the government is in my life and now they want to tell me what kind of light bulbs to use and what kind of car to drive and what kind of fuel to use. <br />
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To make it worse, the candidates on both sides, except for Fred Thompson, have rolled over to the church of Global Warming and that's in this bill, too. I interviewed Sen. Johnny Isakson regarding the Global Warming mantra in the energy bill. He said, "It depends on whether you mean global warming as science or as politics." Many conservatives, including me, have a knee-jerk reaction to the words, global warming and when you couple that with the words, energy bill -- it makes us shudder.<br />
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"Pelosi: 'This is a choice between yesterday and tomorrow': Energy bill promises to change how we live" Headline from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday, December 19th.<br />
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I don't know about you but I've had about enough of government changing the way I live. From the moment I get up in the morning, until I go to sleep at night, the government is in my life and now they want to tell me what kind of light bulbs to use and what kind of car to drive and what kind of fuel to use. <br />
To make it worse, the candidates on both sides, except for Fred Thompson, have rolled over to the church of Global Warming and that's in this bill, too. I interviewed Sen. Johnny Isakson regarding the Global Warming mantra in the energy bill. He said, "It depends on whether you mean global warming as science or as politics." Many conservatives, including me, have a knee-jerk reaction to the words, global warming and when you couple that with the words, energy bill -- it makes us shudder. <br />
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The problem is that it's not a level playing field. The left says we want to reduce our dependence on foreign oil but you can't use coal or new coal technologies, you can't use "nuclear" power and you can't leave a bigger "carbon footprint," whatever that is. Put a call into Al Gore for clarification, please. This is America; if the government gets out of the way we can do anything.<br />
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It's understandable that in the fields of renewable energy, whether it's ethanol or something else, there's plenty of money for the second research phase after there has been a successful first research phase. Rarely do investors want to be first. There's just too much risk in being first. Especially, when you have to risk the government shutting down perfectly good and clean energy alternatives.<br />
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One of the saddest stories to date is the development of clean coal oil technologies and where and why they can't be used. The Southern Company and Orlando Electric entered into a partnership to build a liquid coal plant to generate clean coal for electricity in Florida. Governor Crist has told the parties not to even apply for a permit because Florida is not granting anything for coal. So we can't use a resource, coal, that we have an infinite amount of with the newest and clearest technology and we can't use nuclear power. How are we going to win this battle? The answer it without the free market we won't win.<br />
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The problem with the Energy bill is not necessarily the bill. It is Republicans that don't know how to act like Republicans. To support a bill for the President to sign that does not further clean coal and nuclear energy is like supporting a bill to fund the troops with everything but guns in it. It's not the full picture.<br />
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It was a sight, Nancy Pelosi in her Nancy Reagan red suit smiling with the President as he signed the energy bill. Another example along with Campaign Finance Reform, The Agriculture Bill of 2002, No Child Left Behind, The Prescription Drug Bill, the Highway Bill
