Crossposted at Daily Kos.
Last week I diaried on the key battles in the Senate energy bill, the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007 (SA 1502):
- No on Coal-to-Liquid
- No on restricting EPA or state regulation of motor vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases
- No on diluting definition of biofuels
- No on changing “renewable” to “alternative” in legislation
- No on offshore drilling
- Yes on strong CAFE standards (no on weakening further)
- Yes on price-gouging regulation (the right-wingers are fighting this hard)
- Yes on national Renewable Portfolio Standard of 15% by 2015, 20% by 2020 (if we’re lucky, we’ll get legislation for 15% by 2020)
- Yes on incentives for distributed generation (aka cogeneration, net metering, electranet) at the commercial and residential level
- Yes on support for energy efficiency, especially
- Yes on funding of The Weatherization Assistance Program
- Yes on funding renewable energy by removing some oil subsidies
So what were the results?