planning the Eco-Energy Section

Chris Van Hollen, D-MD, a close associate of Nancy Pelosi, will soon introduce a "cap and dividend" proposal. This will challenge the main House cap-trade bill coming out of Waxman's Committee. As Carbonomics explains, this is the best type of cap, and will likely lead to the untax proposal of Senator Corker and James Hansen, Al Gore's climate adviser.

Van Hollen is on Rangel's committee, which is in a turf war with Waxman. Waxman's pervious cap-trade bill, like most, was larded with giveaways. A cap is actually a very regressive tax in disguise, but refunding revenues on an equal-per-person basis, to "everyone with a social security number" cures this problem.

Without the giveaways, business support will shift from a cap to a carbon tax because business dislikes the extreme volatility of the cap's tax rate.

The Democrats' Energy Policy

Hilary Clinton has the most complete proposal of any Democrat. Barack Obama is second and Nancy Pelosi has essentially none. They are less pro-oil and pro-nuclear, but they still cater to special interests and take a laundry-list approach.

The chief economist of the USDA estimates that by 2017 ethanol will only make us 3.7% more energy independent. That's the good news. The bad news is he forgot that ethanol production and nitrogen fertilizer use a lot of natural gas, and extra gas use means more imports. So slightly under 3% is about it.
The terrible news is that by 2017 ethanol will cut US greenhouse gas emissions by only 2/10 of 1%. This is based on data from USDA and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They were more optimistic than UC Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab. These guys are not exactly biased against ethanol. You can get the details and sources at zfacts.com/p/60.html.
It's time to listen to the science and not to the industry that's making a killing on subsidies.

Not Corn Ethanol

The Little Energy Book

Stop the Flimflam; Get the Job Done. US energy policy is a special-interest mix of oil, uranium, coal, and ethanol that cannot work. The Little Energy Book is being written here on zFacts. Not the usual laundry list, it explains the common sense and science of good cheap energy policy. By Steven Stoft

B Overview: Why,
B Carbon prices, efficiency standards, and subsidies
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B Global Policies
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What's our energy policy?

gizmos: oil addition, gas price,
Oil imports in gallons this year, spent this year,

Good ideas:
Political constituents: labor, car makers, ecologists, anti-foriegn-oilers
Look for existing good ideas: Appolo, Mr. H, ?
Political levers: independence / Bush's addiction / warming / market-based / Rev. neutral
keep our oil-money home / keep our troops home
incentives require taxBates. Q restrictions don't. Permit trading does not.
Generic policy ideas:
1. Rebates for efficient cars.
2. pseudo-Carbon tax-bate
3. Wind rebates (labor)

Dail Kos:
1. New-car subsidy. $200/mpg above the average. $6,000 cap.
2. Require gov to buy most efficient vehicles.
3. Require buses to convert to some-kind of efficient design. Zero-Reb.
4. Subsidize business of $2000/yr for a full-time telecomuter.
5. Subsidize 2 new high-speed rail lines.
6. Replace clear-skys act with older clean-air act provisions.
7. Subsidize wind energy.
8. $6,000 subisdies for solar roof-top installations.
9. Renewable portfolio standards / 10. Federal net-metering for homes.
11. Fed-state alternative-energy demo plants
12. Subsidize coal-to-liquid demo plant with sequestration.
13. Nuclear test plant / 14. CO2 limits on coal plants
15. Carbon trading. ect. to 20
Appolo:
1. Promote hybrids / 2. Efficient factories. 3. buildings / appliances / infrastructure / renewables / transportation / smart urban / hydrogen / regulatory protection.

Apollo Strategy Center

National Commmission on Energy Policy

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding. --Camus

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”
Milton Friedman

new nuclear policy

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Global Nuclear Energy Partnership

State Department on new policy

The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is a comprehensive strategy that the United States is proposing that will allow us to increase U.S. and global energy security, encourage clean development around the world while improving the environment and reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation.

It's important to start with the challenge and the challenge is a dramatic increase in global energy demand over the next 25 and 50 years. We project that global energy demand will increase by 50 percent in the next 25 years and will double in the next 50 years. We must find a way to meet this growing energy demand, to assist the emerging economies develop, to ensure against failed states; it's consistent with our President's democratization initiative. Energy is key to development and we need to find a safe and environmentally appropriate way to meet that growing energy demand. Clean coal will play a very significant role. Other technologies, renewable technologies will play a significant role, but nuclear power must -- and we believe will -- play a great role in meeting this increased energy demand. And in fact, we're already seeing that around the world today.


	Prius rebate http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/tax_hybrid_new.shtml includes Prius and all other hybrids. Prius gets the biggest rebate. Even explains the rules of the game. Amazing.

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