Democrats are blowing our best chance for clean energy
AlterNet
by Kelpie Wilson
06/30/08
[A] contingent of House Democrats has continued to insist that no renewable energy tax credit extension be passed unless it can be paid for by cutting some other budget item or by adding revenue — like increasing taxes on Big Oil. These ‘pay-go’ rules are supposed to establish Democrats as the anti-deficit party and the House leadership has been unmovable on the principle when it applies to renewable energy. But Democrats seem to have a double standard, turning into bendable Barbies when it comes to bailing out bankers or funding the Iraq war...
http://www.alternet.org/environment/89700/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=clean+energy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelpie+Wilson
by Kelpie Wilson
06/30/08
[A] contingent of House Democrats has continued to insist that no renewable energy tax credit extension be passed unless it can be paid for by cutting some other budget item or by adding revenue — like increasing taxes on Big Oil. These ‘pay-go’ rules are supposed to establish Democrats as the anti-deficit party and the House leadership has been unmovable on the principle when it applies to renewable energy. But Democrats seem to have a double standard, turning into bendable Barbies when it comes to bailing out bankers or funding the Iraq war...
http://www.alternet.org/environment/89700/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=clean+energy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelpie+Wilson
rudkla - 1. Jul, 09:07
