Fuel Standards

Congress is doing a huge bill to deal with energy standards. This is a strange bill. It will require states like Georgia to use wind and solar as an energy source. Solar power is expensive. Much more than coal or gas. Wind won't work. Wind has to be over 10 mph to start a windmill. These types of winds are not common in the South. So congress is passing a bill that will not help many people. It also has fuel mileage standards that I always thought were good to force Detroit to improve engines not horsepower. I was reading about football and got a very interesting explanation on this energy bill from an outside source. See for yourself. The part on fuel economy is halfway down the article.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/071204

A while back I noted that the taxation by specific parties is claimed but not practiced. The Democrats state they tax the rich and not the middle class. Republicans say they keep taxes low on everyone. I have said that both parties tax the middle class. Neither tax the rich or poor. Well here is a link to an article that studied where the representatives come from. Based on the wealth of their constituents.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312628,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/house

I also found it ironic that Romney had to give a religious speech to try to keep his campaign for President going. Is the Republican party that biased? I did see someone on a message board complain that since he is atheist he is not American because freedom of faith is American. I would argue that atheism is a religion and that the freedom is theirs too. The issue is that they don't want anything to do with religion and so they actually view anything with faith as bad. These 10% of Americans actually are what fight separation of church and state. Our founding fathers were very religious. They realized that people would be of different faiths and wanted to make sure a church wasn't running the country. That was a big issue in Europe at the time. They also didn't want the country running a church. So why did Romney have to give a speech and say he will follow the US Constitution.