...WHILE CAVING IN ON AN INCREASE IN CAFE STANDARDS...

You forgot that part.

2050?? 2050??

There will be no 2050. My youngest child will be 61 and I will be 98. Florida and Manhattan will be underwater and quite possibly iced over.

2050. What a joke. Do you think anyone will remember legislation that was voted on in the year 2007 in the year 2050?? Not a chance. What a bunch of grandstanding bullshit. They should be ashamed that they would ever consider legislation like this and then go through the sham of voting on it.

Why not just vote on legislation that we will be able to achieve time travel and outer space missions with ships that will travel at the speed of light by the year 2050??

Bunch o' limp's...

Michigan_Dave -

Your elected Democratic officials (Levin and Dingell) are the chief reasons the Democratic Party is behaving like the compromising, capitulating bunch of pussies they really are. Those two are the standard bearers for Detroit auto interests, and therefore, the chief Democratic Party obstructionists when it comes to achieving real progress in energy conservation and clean air for our children to breathe in the next 43 years.

GREEN ENERGIES are nice. But what we really need is funding for Advance Nuclear Energy!

For, as Global Warming worsens, Green Energies will fail, and the Earth will become unlivable.
And then what do we do???

Knowingly aready you have some reason for what you want in politics. And when you look into areas of energy and new methods of green gas making I'm sure you'd think of the local area groups for the area. Writing the Governor gives you the satifaction of what you want to know and tells you that you have all the right to go into the area and serve the nation. The house is the only sign you have for the next move and the next method of research, why are you going yourself that there are no bills in the buget.

WHAT A JOKE???????????????????????????

i give congress credit,anything they do to help the envirement is better than what has been done in the past 6 years which was nothing.

I was watching a program on TV that featured a prominent member of the faculty at M.I.T. He was a climatologist who predicted that in 2050, people would be laughing at the silly panic that was going on at the turn of the 21st century regarding climate change. We cannot do a very good job predicting next weeks weather, we cannot accurately predict hurricanes. Why is a .75 degree increase in temperature in the last 100 years terrifying Al Gore?
William Grey of Hurricane forecasting fame says that climatologists are using faulty data to blame global warming on Hurricane activity. Remember last years Hurricane forecasts? They were wildly wrong. This years forecasts are even more wrong. When I was in high school, 45 years ago, I was taught that a new ice age was past due and should be imminent. Wrong!!! I was taught that the planet only had enough oil for thirty years and we would run out by 2000, again wrong. Al Gore has admitted that he willfully exagerrates the bad effects of the possibility of global warming in order to push his point and get peoples attention.
The point of this diatribe is to illustrate the need for an energy package that is based on need, and not fear. I do not think we will run out of oil soon, but we have to get out from under the economic thumb of the oil cartels, ethanol from corn, sugar cane, switchgrass, etc., etc., is a start, funding for hydrogen propulsion should be a priorty as well as fuel cells. If Democrats point fingers, hug trees, and rely on scary ol' Al Gore for a energy policy, we are doomed. Oil is here for the forseeable future, deal with it. Nuclear energy, well, I think flying cars will be here before we start having the common sense to build another nuke plant.

Biofuels??
I think corn ethanol is the wrong solution , in June,the Senate moved towards
biofuels ,by mandating the production of 36 billion gallons of ethanol by
2022. Recently,Sen.Grassley of Iowa said "Everything about ethanol is
good,good,good." Midwest farmers will get rich,the air will be cleaner and
the planet will be cooler.....This is just not true, Ethanol doesn't burn
cleaner than gasoline,nor is it cheaper.Our current ethanol production
represents only 3-5 percent of our gasoline consumption - yet it consumes
twenty percent of the entire U.S. Corn crop,causing the price of corn to
more than double in the last two years and the increasing acreage devoted
to corn for ethanol means less land for other staple crops,giving farmers
in South America an incentive to cut down tropical forests that help cool
down the planet in order to plant corn for very high profits. Corn is
already the most subsidized crop in America,costing tax payers a total of
$ 51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005-that is twice as
much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol is
costing tax payers a great deal due to propped up Huge subsidies,including
a fifty-one-cent-per gallon tax allowance for refiners.And a study by the
International Institute for Sustainable Development found that ethanol
subsidies amount to as much as $1.38 per gallon - about half of ethanol's
wholesale market price. As a gasoline substitute, ethanol has big
problems: Its energy density is one-third less than gasoline,which means
you have to burn more of it to get the same amount of power. It also has a
nasty tendency to absorb water,so it can't be transported in existing
pipelines and must be distributed by truck or rail,which is very costly.
Why bother with corn ethanol? All ethanol is not created equal,in
Brazil,ethanol made from sugar cane has an energy balance of 8-to-1 - that
is,when you add up the fossil fuels used to
irrigate,fertilize,grow,transport and refine sugar cane into ethanol.the
energy output is eight times higher than the energy inputs.That's a better
deal than gasoline,which has an energy balance of 5-to-1. So...what I am
getting at is that the energy balance of corn ethanol is only 3-to-1-
making it practically worthless as an energy source. Ethanol can be
distilled from a variety of plants such as switch grass and sugar
cane.Most vehicles can't run on pure ethanol,but E85,a mix of eighty-five
percent ethanol and fifteen percent gasoline,requires only slight engine
modification,but how much will that ad to the cost at the pumps for
ethanol to the consumer?Corn ethanol is actually a way of recycling
natural gas. Today, ADM is the leading producer of ethanol,supplying more
than 1 billion gallons of the fuel additive last year thanks to you the
tax payer and Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas,Dole helped Archer Daniels Midlald
secure billions of dollars in Tax subsidies and Tax breaks to look for a
new way to profit from corn"Ethanol". In 1995 ,the conservative Cato
Institute,estimating that nearly half of ADM's profit came from products
either subsidized or protected by the federal government,called the
Company "the most prominent recipient of corporate welfare in recent
history".Politicians are pushing hard for corn ethanol production
increases - but ethanol not only hurts the environment, it's also one of
Corporate America's biggest scams. The first thing that we need to do is
to push hard to pass legislation to force our auto manufacturers to build
autos that get 45 to 50 mpg , that will decrease our oil consumption and
go a long way in our fight in slowing down global warming. Is corn ethanol a Corporate scam - you decide...

there are some negative propaganda being put out by whom unknown but it puts fear in those who are uninformed it is to redirect the attention from the truth about our need to invest in alternative energy.

they are commercials on TV telling folks the reason for the high cost of food is to be blamed on the farmers because of the high cost of corn.
And the development of ethanol could cause food shortages all of which is false.
BUT the city dwellers have no way of knowing the truth.
the farmers need to know this is going around they mostly vote republican but they beg for the benefits the Democrats give them.

the propaganda should be stopped and the truth e told.
the high cost of food is due to the high cost of fuel and production.
there will never be a shortage of food due to the development of ethanol.
only 1% of our farm land is in production and much of our farm land is being used for homes.
many of our young farmers are not farming due to the high cost of start up.
the farmers have struggled to stay on the land for decades.
if we were to redirect the money the energy corps. are making and give that to the farmers our rural America would not be POOR.