Today, Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced the Clean Energy Jobs and Oil Accountability Act (24 pg pdf), an energy bill that started off as a big energy/climate bill, then shrunk and shrunk and shrunk. I've named it the Wimp Bill: Land & Water Conservation Fund, Homestar (energy efficiency Improvements), Massive Oil Spill Response, and Pickens Plan for natural gas. The last is an ethanol-like boondoggle, but the rest of the bill is not bad. In particular, the part of the bill fixing the Land & Water Conservation Fund deserves support. It just isn't a climate bill. Or a strong energy bill. Or, truthfully, anything having anything to do with anything.
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