My grumpy tuppence: This bill is the inevitable result of the GOP taking no action on addressing the energy problem during all the years when it ruled the roost.

Statesmen, as opposed to self-interested politicians, use a party’s period of popularity to force through necessary things that are unpopular. The time for drill-drill and nuke-plant building was at the turn of the century. We got evasion and jokes about Al Gore and heads in the sand. In a very real way, the GOP created this current bill themselves, by default. The laugh is on them, and all of us will pay the consequences of its shortcomings.

Over and out.