They note that both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney made their fortunes in oil and that the president's national energy strategy, unveiled last week, relied heavily on exploiting new resources rather than conservation or fuel efficiency.
So we must encourage conservation and fuel efficiency, support alternative forms of energy like wind, solar and biofuels, and -- I'll get hate mail about this -- grudgingly accept nuclear power, because it doesn't produce greenhouse gases.
Let energy conservation and fuel efficiency rule the day.
Most Democrats hold that the solution is conservation, particularly stiffer fuel efficiency standards.
Also today, the Energy and Commerce Committee, hoping to lace the overall package with less contentious, more popular proposals, took up a bill to reward energy conservation and strengthen fuel efficiency standards for light trucks and sport utility vehicles, among other things.
"It would create an enormous precedent way beyond prescription drugs, affecting research on energy conservation by oil companies, fuel efficiency by automakers, health benefits by food companies.
2. Energy Bill: Vote on a sweeping energy plan that would encourage energy production, promote conservation and modestly raise fuel efficiency standards.
In a major legislative victory for Republicans and the White House, the House voted Wednesday night to allow drilling in an Alaskan refuge shortly before it passed a sweeping energy plan that would encourage energy production, promote conservation and modestly raise fuel efficiency standards.
These steps include energy conservation by increasing the fuel efficiency of vehicles; switching to cleaner energy sources by changing business practices; or carbon sequestration through tropical reforestation.
