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Nailed to the doors of the White House this morning reporters found Vice President Cheney's 95 theses, actually 105 recommendations, for modernizing the nation's energy infrastructure, boosting fuel supplies, and throwing political bones to anyone whose environmental politics veer to the left of the President's - which is to say, anyone...
...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 than federal research dollars if it is ever to become a national alternative to fossil fuel energy...
...Though the industries that will implement the energy policy are never mentioned, the recommendations that are neither redundant nor fluff generally sound their factories' morning whistle (The only sector mentioned is the auto industry, which, the report states, should not be "negatively impacted" by any new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. A worthy sentiment, but "negatively impacted" itself looms as fuel for later debate...
...FUEL EFFICIENCY With Ford and GM arguing over who is greener, it may be time to raise fuel-efficiency rules. Closing the light-truck loophole that holds SUVs to a lower standard could save almost a billion barrels of oil a year...
...Republicans find that the numbers change when the question is framed as one of economic security. If the energy crunch means layoffs, job dislocation, and high fuel prices, people are a lot more responsive. So that's the way Republicans are going to try to frame this debate down the road...