A Clear difference: setting the Price of Carbon, so WE get a Share

by jamess

Clearly America needs to reach for, and achieve, a Clean Energy Future.

Not so Clear is the Road we will take, if any, to ultimately get there ...

Kerry says Obama intends to move votes on energy
Reporting by Timothy Gardner and Richard Cowan, Editing by Sandra Maler, Reuters -- June 22, 2010

WASHINGTON - [...]
Obama is slated to meet leading Republican and Democratic senators on Wednesday to discuss a way forward for the energy legislation.
[...]
Kerry said the bill must include ways to price carbon but was not "locked into any one single way of doing it."

"The fact is if we don't price carbon, we will create one tenth of the jobs and reduce only one tenth of the emissions," he said. "It would essentially be an energy-only bill."

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Renewable Energy Round-Up

by mark louis

Before I get to energy news, I'd like to address news on energy legislation.  It's been reported in various places that Maj. Leader Harry Reid will pursue an energy-only bill w/o a cap on carbon, & then allow Kerry/Lieberman to be offered as an amendment.  Then today, Lindsey Graham announced that he would not vote for K/L, a bill he helped write.  Here's my question: why isn't anyone paying attention to the Cantwell/Collins CLEAR bill?  Is it any weaker than Kerry/Lieberman?  And if you think it doesn't spur enough renewable energy investment, why not pair it with the ACELA bill written by Jeff Bingaman?  Here are some links: CLEAR: Side by side w/ACES (PDF) & how it works (PDF). ACELA: Summary (PDF) I don't think ACELA is enough on its own.  And it seems as though some momentum, however minimal, has swung behind CLEAR, & it has a Republican sponsor with the onions to put her name on it.  With that, let's talk energy.

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