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...enfeebled by a series of disastrous setbacks. President Clinton decided right out of the gate to take on the polarizing issue of gays in the military, creating the widely unpopular "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. He also forced through the House an energy tax, known as the BTU tax, that would have charged all fuel sources based on their heat content; the measure failed in the Senate, and many vulnerable House Dems blamed that vote for the loss of their seats. And, of course, Clinton's attempt at health care reform tanked just before the 1994 elections...
...warming earlier this summer. The Senate has yet to act on it, and given the current atmosphere, poisoned by health-care, the environment bill may never see final passage. The GOP calls the climate-change bill a massive new energy tax on consumers and likens it to the doomed BTU energy tax that was passed at the urging of President Bill Clinton in his first term and cost several Democrats their seats in the following midterm elections...
...examine why gas prices have deflated so much: natural gas prices and oil prices are no longer bedfellows in our present economy. As crude oil has skyrocketed from about $30 per bbl. in December 2008 to more than $70, natural gas has plummeted from nearly $6 per million BTU to under $3, recently hitting a seven-year low. To put these numbers in perspective, this makes oil more than four times as expensive as natural gas to produce the same amount of energy, according to the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration (EIA). (Read "Clean Energy: U.S. Lags in Research...
...heat content of fuels, measured in British thermal units (BTUs) - then watched in shock as Clinton retreated from them when the Senate balked. That vote was one of the major factors behind the massive defeat House Democrats suffered in 1994, and some Representatives are wondering whether they might "get BTU'd" again if they stick their necks out for an ambitious health-care-reform bill that gets watered down in the Senate. "We all like Rahm," a Democratic House member told me. "But we also remember where he was in 1993." Back then, Emanuel was a top Clinton White House...
Another quick fix is to simply to use less heat - without freezing to death. Trethewey notes that many homes are overheated, equipped with boilers or heating systems that are far stronger than necessary. If a building uses about 100,000 BTU of heat, it doesn't need a system that supplies twice that - yet that's how many buildings operate. "It would be correct for about two percent of the year, and overpower you for the rest," says Trethewey. "It's like a V12 engine in a Volkswagen - it leads to wasted energy...