Now why is it that Vice President Cheney has been painted as corrupt for supposedly allowing energy companies to write his energy bill — with absolutely no evidence to corroborate such claims — but Democrats are not corrupt when industry giants Sylvania, GE and Phillips ADMIT to writing a law that profitted them greatly the very day it passed the senate, and is poised to profit them additional untold billions in the future at consumer expense?

I also showed how a so-called “environmental” law is of dubious environmental benefit if any…unless you think filling land-fills with mercury, mercury poisoning, increased pollution due to vastly increased shipping, and Chinese environmental policy are good for the environment?

How could you possibly claim to know that I don’t turn off my lights and electrical equiptment when they are not in use. The fact is that I do. But more to the point, it’s none of your business. Perhaps you should unplug and sell your computer (its using large amounts of energy even when its off, you know) before using the federal government to force your neighbors to use the amount of energy YOU determine they need.

Also, someone should probably inform you that Americans could unplug every light bulb and electrical device in the country and it wouldnt reduce our dependence on foreign oil one drop. Thats because virtually none of our electric power (approximately 3%) comes from oil! We use oil to make fuels to power cars, trucks, trains, planes and other vehicles. We dont use it to make electricity. We derrive our electricity mostly from coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydroelectric and geothermal, with tiny amounts coming from inefficient wind, solar, and biomass. But even if consumers could put light bulbs directly into their tanks, this doesnt help Americans, because it increases their costs, not decreases them!

If you want to help America become less dependent on foreign oil, and that is a worthy goal, you would do much better to figure out how we can develop more of our own energy to help Americans get to work, to the store, the bank, the dry-cleaner, the piano class, the soccer game and everything else that Americans do to keep eachother employed, not how we can prevent them from doing so.

The answer is not by regulating what kind of light bulbs and other products Americans can and cannot use, and making energy more expensive for Americans (now we’ll probably need a big government program to help the poor afford light — just what Democrats want — more people dependent on them!), but by generating more affordable energy ourselves so that we require less from foreign sources and Americans can continue to do all the things they do that keep the economy going and keep Americans (and the rest of the world) employed.

The best way to achieve that is by increasing our own production of clean coal, nuclear (by far the cleanest most efficient power source), hydrothermal, hydroelectric, wind, solar, and yes, natural gas and oil.

Republicans know all this. Democrats are too busy demogoguing the energy issue and passing phony “environmental” regulations for personal gain.

If only their supporters werent too ignorant to fall for it!

Maybe if you switched off your light bulbs and other electrical equipment when not in use laws like this wouldn’t be necessary. Unless you find US dependence on imported oil from Venezuela and Arabia a benefit, of course.

A shame you didn’t add some more facts to substantiate your rant though, there were nearly some interesting ideas there.