Congress: You've Got Oil On Your Hands

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I bet you're wondering, "What the heck is the government doing about this oil spill?" because in all actuality, its just as much of the government's fault as it is BP. If the government would have enforced more strict regulations for offshore drilling never opened up off shore drilling in the first place, this probably would not have happened. But you know how that goes. Shoulda, coulda, woulda .. but they didn't.

So for now, congress is trying to get a comprehensive climate/energy bill passed to "protect" the climate. However, none (but about 2 or 3) of the Republicans are down with protecting the environment. The smart senators realize that in order to stop pollution, there has to be a cap on carbon which will make polluters pay.

cap on carbon: putting a limit on the amount of pollution going into the air and if this limit is surpassed, the polluter will be taxed.

This is the logical way to stop pollution right? Not according to Republicans. They would rather polluters be bribed to stop polluting instead of making them pay. *rolls eyes*

Therefore, there are not enough votes to have such a bill passed with a cap on carbon. So now that the bill has come down to mainly focusing on cleaning up power-plants which account for a third of US emissions, of course we now start to hear the whining. The utility companies are trying to "pull the scam of the decade" by asking to be exempt from EPA's new Clean Air Act regulations. These new regulations will be much stricter than the weak bill the Senate is trying to put together, and they know this. So the power plants have seemingly "compromised" as to support this bill if only they are exempt from the new regulations which will definitely force them to clean up their act.

Ironically, environmentalists do not support this new climate bill because of this secret underlying fact. In all actuality, something is worse than nothing.

This bill has been stripped bare of its potential. Why am I NOT surprised?

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