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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 21:01:28 PM MST
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| Back on December 18, 2006 I addressed Rep. Rehberg's hypocritical criticism (in the form of a Missoulian editorial that was never on-line) of Sen. Max Baucus' step towards saving the Rocky Mountain Front from exploratory drilling. That piece appeared here.
In a synopsis, among other things, Rep. Rehberg criticized not only the loss of the Front to drilling, but whined about Washington failing to address "the heart of the problem : America's lack of reliable domestic energy supplies." He went on call for a "comprehensive energy plan that embraces traditional and alternative energy," and said that we "should be making investments here at home, not lining the coffers of foreign governments, many of which are anti-American."
His cynicism went further: It's possible that in 30 years, when our kids and grandkids are supporting their own families, they'll thank us for not allowing the Front, or these other American avenues of energy, to be tapped for exploration. Maybe they'll be happy they didn't have the opportunity to get a good job in the energy industry."
Well, apparently his hypocrisy knows no bounds.
On January 18 2007 Rep. Rehberg voted against the Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation (HR 6), otherwise known as CLEAN Energy Act of 2007. |
| jhwygirl :: The No-Bounds Hypocrisy of Rep. Dennis Rehberg (Part II) |
| HR 6 (which passed 264-163) doesn't completely solve our reliance on foreign oil - Lord knows that can't be done overnight - but what it does do is eliminate tax subsidies to domestic producers of oil (previously producers were permitted a deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, natural gas, or their related primary products). HR 6 also required the holders of current leases in the Gulf to be up-to-date on their lease payments and requires them, before obtaining any new leases, to renegotiate those leases so that the payments are current with newer lease payment requirements.
Further - and these changes relate directly towards investing in alternative energy sources for the U.S.- it creates a Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve that utilizes funds from newly imposed Conservation of Resources Fees, which will be collected any time oil is above $34.73 a barrel or gas is above $4.34 per million BTU. The Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve lists three purposes:
(1) to accelerate the use of clean domestic renewable energy resources and alternative fuels;
(2) to promote the utilization of energy-efficient products and practices and conservation; and
(3) to increase research, development, and deployment of clean renewable energy and efficiency technologies.
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Now, where does Denny get the lion's share of campaign money? Big Oil & Gas.
I guess a bill eliminating tax deductions to oil producers already weeble-wobbly fat from subsidy would have hit him too hard in the billfold. And having America investing towards reliance of clean domestic renewable energy was just plain not profitable to either him or his lobbyist buddies.
I'm disgusted. Are you? |
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