posted July 31, 2005 01:42 PM              

New U.S. Energy Bill speeds up oil reserve depletion, increases dangerous dependence on Middle East oil that threatens national and homeland security. Provides funding for major expansion of radioactive energy(Nukes)and continues focus on high polluting fossil energy. Discourages investment in abundant clean energy resources and and protects windfall profits of big oil and energy. Visit www.cleanpeace.org for more information.

(PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The energy bill Congress sent to the White House today guarantees America's continued dangerous, dependence on Middle East oil.

The U.S. holds between 2 percent and 3 percent of world oil reserves, the Persian Gulf nations hold 50 percent and the Middle East dominated OPEC cartel controls 61 percent. Middle East dictators have oil staying power; the U. S. and Western democracies do not.

“The bill subsidizes more rapid depletion of dwindling U.S. oil reserves. Subsidized oil production means faster oil depletion, an increasingly dangerous dependence on Middle East oil, the dictators who control it and the terrorists who influence them,” said author Roy McAlister, a Cleanpeace. org Co-President and a world authority on clean fuel production from wind, wave, biomass and solar energy.

America's prosperity and security depend on adequate supplies of the cheap oil that powers the nation's economy. Increasing dependence on Middle East oil supplies that can be disrupted by violence or political change at any time threatens both. Without adequate cheap oil supplies America could face recessions, depression and worse.

The energy bill's policies will not fill the oil gap, improve the environment, reduce global warming or encourage use of America's abundant undeletable energy.

The bill heavily subsidizes depletable radioactive energy (nuclear power), coal and other fossil fuels while short-changing undepletable energy.

This severe imbalance in funding and policy advantages makes fossil and radioactive energy appear less expensive than undepletable energy discouraging its commercialization and sustaining windfall profits for big oil.

“Earth collects more energy from the sun in one day than all the oil it ever contained. Nature stores vast amounts of this energy in wind, wave action, biomass and direct solar in sun-scorched deserts. All these abundant forms of solar energy can be converted to hydrogen and fuel America's existing utility, industrial, transportation and agricultural engines without pollution.” said McAlister.

But,Congress prefers to serve big oil profits rather focus policy and funding on this clean energy source that could bring real energy independence, cleaner air and water and strong national security.

“The bill protects oil and OPEC from real competition. It stacks the competitive deck against undepletable energy and that stacks the deck against America.” said Bill Garrett, a Co-President of Cleanpeace.org, a non-profit clean, undepletable, energy advocacy group.

Radioactive power (Nukes) can not safely fill the oil gap. The fossil resources subsidized by the energy bill cannot be mined and processed into oil fast enough to replace the gushes of oil that have fueled American and world prosperity. “The energy bill's priorities are simply wrong, Said Garrett.

“It would take over 2000 mammoth one giga-watt radioactive fueled nuclear power plants to make up oil's decline. Storing and protecting the radioactive wastes these nuclear plants will produce prohibits nuclear power from being cost effective.” Said McAlister

McAlister continued, “Congress' energy bill amounts to little more than a Big Oil boondoggle and a multi-billion dollar giveaway to giant energy corporations. It puts taxpayer money in the wrong place, at the wrong time and for the wrong reasons. It continues short-changing abundant solar resources and it fails to equalize subsidies and policy advantages between depletable energy and undepletable energy. The bill should be dubbed “The Great Mistake”

posted July 31, 2005 01:47 PM            

Now that is being "Conservative"

posted July 31, 2005 02:00 PM              

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Energy Bill Affects Daylight Savings Time
July 29, 2005, 03:36 PM

Congress has finally cleared the massive energy bill that President Bush requested at the start of his first term.

The Senate passed the bill this morning. Supporters say the measure will provide jobs, new fuel options, cleaner-burning coal and more nuclear reactors but it is not expected to do much about the high gas prices.

It will also add one month onto Daylight Savings Time to help save more energy. However some dispute the energy savings idea because it is based on a study from 30 years ago.

Nevada Senator Harry Reid didn't vote for the energy. In a statement released to Channel 8 Eyewitness News, the senator said he supported the original Senate version of the bill because he felt it helped the country become more energy independent but he says the House version takes us away from independence so he can not support the measure.
http://www.klastv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3659353&nav=168YckWq

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posted July 31, 2005 02:58 PM              

Kansas rescinds Daylight Savings Time
Sunflower State reverts to "God's Time"

TOPEKA, Kan. -- The state legislature here has voted to return to standard time on a year-round basis. Following a 63 to 21 vote, legislators passed a law repealing the adoption of Daylight Savings Time in favor of keeping the state's clocks set on Central Standard Time all year.

Burnett "Bud" Jameson (R - Monroe County), speaking in favor of the measure said, "When God created man, He took exactly seven days—not five days, not seven days, exactly six days. That's exactly 132 hours*—not 131, not 133, exactly 132. So we've got no business monkeying around the intelligent design of the 24-hour clock that God set in motion when He started time here in the U.S. around 6000 years ago."

posted July 31, 2005 03:03 PM              

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Burnett "Bud" Jameson (R - Monroe County), speaking in favor of the measure said, "When God created man, He took exactly seven days—not five days, not seven days, exactly six days.

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posted July 31, 2005 03:03 PM              

Energy Tax Breaks Total $14.5 Billion
Some Lawmakers Wanted More Support for Efficiency, Alternative Sources

By Justin Blum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 28, 2005; Page A04

Congressional negotiators completed work yesterday on a $14.5 billion package of tax breaks as part of a major energy bill that provides far less support for alternative energy and efficiency than many lawmakers had urged.

posted July 31, 2005 03:09 PM              

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Editor's note: When contacted by Shari Wrightwood, the Travel Fox facts checker for this story, Mr. Jameson said that he miscalculated the number of hours in six days saying, "I should have said that there are really 144 hours in six days," then he added, "and that's true for all of the other 47 states in the U.S. as well."

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this guy is ripping pages out of the bible and math books as well as ripping stars off the u.s. flag....
and he supports the board of education fight against teaching evolution, how ironic....

posted July 31, 2005 04:10 PM              

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Congressional negotiators completed work yesterday on a $14.5 billion package of tax breaks as part of a major energy bill that provides far less support for alternative energy and efficiency than many lawmakers had urged.

The tax package -- negotiated behind closed doors by lawmakers -- would award 58 percentof the total benefit over 10 years to traditional energy industries, including oil, natural gas, coal, electric utilities and nuclear power.

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posted August 01, 2005 12:48 AM            

DRUDGE REPORT SUN JULY 31, 2005 19:44:05 ET
HELEN THOMAS ANGRY AFTER 'KILL SELF' OVER CHENEY COMMENTS PUBLISHED

White House press doyenne Helen Thomas is plenty peeved at her longtime friend Albert Eisele, editor of THE HILL newspaper in Washington, D.C.

In a column this week headlined "Reporter: Cheney's Not Presidential Material," Eisele quoted Thomas as saying "The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar."

Thomas also said: "I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does," according to Eisele's column.

But Thomas said yesterday at the White House that her comments to Eisele were for his ears only. "I'll never talk to a reporter again!" Thomas was overheard saying.

"We were just talking -- I was ranting -- and he wrote about it. That isn't right. We all say stuff we don't want printed," Thomas said.

But Eisele said that when he called Thomas, "I assume she knew that we were on the record."

"She's obviously very upset about it, but it was a small item -- until Drudge picked it up and broadcast it across the universe," Eisele said.

Still, he noted that reporters aren't that happy when the tables are turned. "Nobody has thinner skin than reporters," Eisele said with a laugh.