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House shifts billion toward renewable energy!
Republicans called it a "no-energy bill" because it lacks new drilling incentives, and they derided the new emphasis on renewables as "green pork." The White House threatened to veto the bill on concerns that it could boost energy prices.

Didn’t Bush say that the USA is addicted to oil and needs to find alternate energy sources? Or was he just refering to ethanol?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070805/pl_n…

(sorry if this is a repeat, I posted it in the wrong category)

the reason i ask this is well obviously global warming has been going on for years but people didn’t start caring much about it at all until gas and energy prices started skyrocketing. also it seems like none of the car producers are really producing truly green cars they might not use gas but now the new cars like the ford flex that are fully "plug in" electric cars are doing nothing but moving green house gasses from the exhaust pipe to the coal mines and it seems like people think cars like that are going to stop global warming…
um im sorry but i never saw the scientific evidence that global warming doesnt exist….oh right because it does…

Because the U.S. House of Representatives just passed a bill that would basically mandate the use of "green" energy.

BUT, I seem to remember this being EXACTLY what California tried a few years ago………….not working out so well. Spain also tried this………..not working out so well. In fact a recent study concluded that Spain LOST 2.2 regular jobs for every temporary "green" job that was created.

So I’m just curious, other than Barack Obama SAYING this isn’t going to hurt the economy, what EVIDENCE is there that this will work (when every other time it has failed and caused higher energy prices)?

The bill is called The American Clean Energy and Security Act. (aka HR 2454)

Because the U.S. House of Representatives just passed a bill that would basically mandate the use of "green" energy.

BUT, I seem to remember this being EXACTLY what California tried a few years ago………….not working out so well. Spain also tried this………..not working out so well. Spain concluded that for every 1 "green" job created, 2 regular jobs were lost.

So I’m just curious, other than Barack Obama SAYING this isn’t going to hurt the economy, what EVIDENCE is there that this will work (when every other time it has failed and caused higher energy prices)?

The bill is called The American Clean Energy and Security Act. (aka HR 2454)

House shifts billion toward renewable energy!
Republicans called it a "no-energy bill" because it lacks new drilling incentives, and they derided the new emphasis on renewables as "green pork." The White House threatened to veto the bill on concerns that it could boost energy prices.

Didn't Bush say that the USA is addicted to oil and needs to find alternate energy sources? Or was he just refering to ethanol?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070805/pl_nm/usa_energy_house_dc_3