“As the most ambitious energy and climate-change legislation ever introduced in Congress made its way to a floor vote last Friday, it grew fat with compromises, carve-outs, concessions and out-and-out gifts intended to win the votes of wavering lawmakers and the support of powerful industries. The deal making continued right up until the final minutes, with the bill’s co-author Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, doling out billions of dollars in promises on the House floor to secure the final votes needed for passage. The bill was freighted with hundreds of pages of special-interest favors, even as environmentalists lamented that its greenhouse-gas reduction targets had been whittled down.” (New York Times, Wednesday)
“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” –John Godfrey Saxe
FEE Timely Classic
“Wasting Energy on Energy Efficiency” by Ben Lieberman
