From Deseret News archives:
Energy bill offers consumers relief at pump
The bill the Senate leadership introduced, the Consumer-First Energy Act of 2008, will begin to offer consumers hope of real relief from their growing pain at the pump. This bill offers senators the chance to stop writing a blank check to Big Oil and begin to help their constituents. While nothing can bring down gas prices immediately, this legislation will take clear steps to address problems in the market and hasten the process of shifting our priorities toward long-term solutions.
It's time for wind farms, not windfalls. Right now, Big Oil has consumers over a barrel and another fiscal quarter of tens of billions of dollars in profits. This bill will finally shift money from giveaways to polluters to places where it will actually do some good by investing it in clean, renewable energy.
Two years ago Bush said America was addicted to oil, but last week he complained that we just need a bigger fix. The disastrous policies of his administration have allowed the addiction to grow and energy prices to skyrocket.
DEPA would merely feed our addiction to oil instead of investing in the clean energy solutions we need. As Sen. Reid said in a release last week, "Americans consume 25 percent of the world's produced oil, but our nation holds less than 3 percent of the world's proven oil reserves." The math simply doesn't add up.
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