E=mc2: Congress and the Energy Bill

So marvelous are the benefits that it almost makes a human being giddy. Congress passed an energy bill before its members hurried home to their well-earned rest. (By September 3, when they return, they will have vacationed for 90 days and worked for 153 days. And when a piece of legislation becomes law that provides each of us as many benefits as the Energy Bill does, all those days of vacation can be forgiven.)

Although the energy bill does lots of wonderful things for human beings, corporations were not overlooked. The difference between how humans are treated and how corporations are treated is that corporations get bigger and longer lasting benefits than do individuals. The final cost of the bill will be between $12.3 billion and $15 billion. Eight hundred million will go to those of us who are homeowners and another $874 million to those who buy alternate fuel vehicles over the next decade.

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