Thread: Why does Sen. Brownback Push Renewable Electricity Standard

National renewable electricity standard, RES

Why does Brownback push RES?

Sunday, September 26, 2010
Kiowa County Signal, September 22, 2010

Will Sam Brownback’s last act as a senator be to sellout Kansas and the rest of America on capping greenhouse gas emissions?

Sen. Brownback joined Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and several other senators earlier this week in introducing a bill to establish a national renewable electricity standard (RES), which Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) has indicated he would try to make the consolation prize in this Congress’ final lame duck-clash over global warming regulation.

Sen. Brownback called RES a common-sense energy policy and said, “the beauty of this is it is not cap and trade.â€

I might buy this concept if the subsidies came from reducing the size of the Federal governemt by 25%, eliminating all payments to the United Nations, reducing the size of all Congressional, Judicial, and Executive branch staff by 50%, reducing all Congressional travel by 75%, and placing Michelle Obama's fake garden in the soil bank.