On Thursday the Senate voted (65-27) to pass the new energy bill(HR. 6 full text). In a move driven mostly by democrats they included a package of renewable energy and efficiency measures.

You might remember the last “clean energy” bill under the republican lead congress in 2005. It was the one in which Dick got in hot water for not telling who was on his energy committee. It was widely understood that the bill was written for oil companies by oil companies. Reading the bill its not hard to see why. It’s a literally money buffet for big oil and gas companies. This time however the main focus was on renewable and alternative fuels and efficiency. Something I welcome.

After a lot of fighting the senate created a bill that included:

much more after the fold.

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