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...ANWR drilling: This proposal has long been presumed a non-starter in the Senate, even by the White House, and it?s not likely that the 2,000-acre version - given the way it still gets reported as a major Bush victory - has any better chance of making it past Tom Daschle and his Jeffords-installed committee chairmen. Cross...
...truck fleet to achieve an average of 26 mpg by 2005 and 27.5 mpg by 2007. (The current SUV requirement of 20.7 mpg dates back to 1983.) But the proposal may have set a precedent for selling the increased standards as a replacement, freedom-from-foreign-oil-wise, for ANWR drilling...
...what everybody knows is that Tom Daschle will bury ANWR and anything else he deems too extreme when the Senate takes its look at the energy package in September. And after all the political blows have been exchanged and all the votes taken, the Washington-authored changes in the national energy picture will probably amount to the same thing Tauzin and Dingell came up with...
...this." Even Congress is uneasy about that momentum. With an eye to the polls and the 2002 elections, some Republicans joined Democrats in late June to vote down any new oil or gas drilling in national monuments, and the Senate has signaled it would not support drilling in ANWR if pushed to a vote...
...report's most controversial recommendations have been widely known and discussed for months: drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere; increase reliance on nuclear power; tie research money for renewable energy, such as wind and solar, to revenues from aforementioned drilling. The ANWR debate is expected to crumble under the weight of congressional environmentalists; the waste-related risks of nuclear power plants - compared with the global warming threat - may look like the lesser of two evils. Renewable energy, which now composes an eye-popping 2% of the nation's energy grid, needs a heck of a lot more...