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  Dingell Silent in 109th

  Tomcal points out Dingell was in the minority in 109th.  Great insight.

  He was the ranking Democrat on Energy and Commerce.  He did not publicly demand global warming hearings. In fact he was pretty much silent on the entire topic unless it was to bash Kyoto or downplay the possibility of legislating on the topic until September 2006.On Activists pester him about the most trivial stuff posted 2 years, 3 months ago 12 Responses

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  Are you serious?

  You are going to call out Greenpeace when Dingell has been nothing but an obstruction to serious discussion about global warming?  Where was he last Congress when Energy and Commerce held no hearings on global warming?  He sat there silently.

  This year as chair he held hearings only after Pelosi directly threatened his jurisdiction by forming the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

  Dingell is not trying to pass legislation.  He and Chairman Boucher are trying to delay anything harms to their respective pet projects- namely the domestic auto industry and coal.  

  He is not being subtle about it either. Dingell has intentionally picked proposals that are so politically unpopular that they could never ever pass.  This way he can say he wants action while undermining realistic efforts to enact change.

  Despite what some people suggest gas taxes are unpopular.  No politician in his or her right mind wants to have the price of gasoline hung around their neck.  The attack ads would write themselves.

  Similarly a carbon tax is doomed.  Anyone who reads the paper knows that politicians that get labelled as tax raisers are done.

  And now he is proposing to mess with people's love of bigger houses?  The policy is great but come on!  Anyone projected to have a race anywhere close to being competitive might as well come out against ice cream.  (And good luck raising any money)

  I am no fan of Greenpeace's tactics but please do not dirty this site with defenses of Dingell.

  I think your site needs to fill that DC reporter position quickly if this is the garbage that is going to qualify as insight into politics.
  On Activists pester him about the most trivial stuff posted 2 years, 3 months ago 12 Responses

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  Could This Bill Have More Coal Give Aways?

  I am surprised you like this bill Mr. Romm when so many credits are given away in a fashion favorable to coal and when the research money is so schewed toward coal technologies.  
  I am sure that I am not the only one to notice that there were mentions of "no or low" emission technologies, but it never said the word "renewable." Sounds like nukes to me.
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