EPA act 2005
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:6:./temp/~c109O6Sd9a::
The Dems in congress and senate took out nuclear energy in 2007. Anything else is revisionist.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_cong_bills&docid=f:h6enr.txt.pdfAll 3 plans have been in the Bush energy plans since 2005.
Its just that few in congress or senate has wanted to do any of it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/27/politics/27cnd-bush.htmlBush Urges More Nuclear Plants and Building Refineries on Bases
By MARIA NEWMAN
Published: April 27, 2005
President Bush said today that he wanted the United States to build more nuclear power plants, turn unused military bases into refineries and raise sales of more efficient cars to make America less dependent on foreign fuel sources.
The president, in an address to a conference of the Small Business Administration in Washington, said that he knew that people were concerned about the rising prices of oil. It was the second time this week that he addressed the topic, a tacit acknowledgement that the issue is beginning to weigh on the United States economy and on Mr. Bush's public approval ratings.
The president told his audience at the Washington Hilton that at a recent lunch with soldiers at Fort Hood, near his ranch in Crawford, Tex., one of the troops asked him why he simply did not lower gas prices.
"Obviously, gasoline prices were on his mind," Mr. Bush said. "I said, I wish I could. If I could, I would. I explained to him that the higher cost of gasoline is a problem that has been years in the making."
"Over the past decade, our energy consumption has increased by more than 12 percent, while our domestic production has increased by less than one-half of 1 percent," he added. "It's now time to fix it."
The president listed several strategies to respond to soaring gasoline prices, but all would take years to realize.
Three administration officials said on Tuesday that the White House would seek to have Mr. Bush's proposals incorporated into the energy bill that has already been passed by the House. The Senate is drafting an entirely new bill, partly out of concern that the House version is too generous to large oil companies and others in the energy sector. Today, Mr. Bush today called on Congress to give him an energy bill by summer.
The president also talked about using technology to find more sources of energy here at home. He said he wanted to encourage the construction of more nuclear power plants.
"Today's technology has made nuclear power safer, cleaner and more efficient than ever before," he said. "Nuclear power is now providing about 20 percent of America's electricity, with no air pollution or greenhouse gas emissions. Nuclear power's one of the safest, cleanest sources of power in the world, and we need more of it here in America."
The president said the United States had not ordered a new nuclear power plant since the 1970's, while France has built 58 plants in the same period and gets more than 78 percent of its electricity from nuclear power.
"Time for America to start building again," he said.
Noting that no oil refineries had been built in the United States since 1976, the president also said that he would encourage the building of new refining facilities on closed military bases, though he did not detail where or how many.
He also said he wanted to encourage more exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and natural gas.
"Technology now makes it possible to reach ANWR's hydrocarbons by drilling on just 2,000 acres of the 19 million acres of land," he said. "Because of the advances in technology, we can reach the oil deposits with almost no impact on land or local wildlife."
Mr. Bush also talked about a tax credit for gas-electric hybrid automobiles and for use of clean diesel, both addressed in his budget earlier this year. The hybrid tax break was left out of the energy bill passed by the House last week.
The Senate minority leader, Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, called President Bush's initiatives "little more than half-measures and wrongheaded policies that will do nothing to address the current energy crisis or break the stranglehold that foreign oil has on our nation," The Associated Press said.
Mr. Reid said that a plan by Senate Democrats would offer more tax incentives - double the $8 billion approved by the House - and funnel more of the money to renewable energy sources and energy-efficiency measures.
