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The
President's Energy Plan
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The
Democrats' Plan
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Total Recommendations
The President's plan makes 105 specific recommendations.
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Total
Recommendations
The Democrats makes 49 recommendations.
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Meetings & Consultations
The President's Energy Group met multiple
times and the Group's staff consulted with hundreds of energy
experts, environmentalists, and consumers.
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Meetings
& Consultations
It is unclear whether the Democrats consulted
with anyone when they were writing their plan.
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Electricity
Transmission Bottlenecks
The President makes 8 concrete recommendations
to improve our antiquated electricity transmission infrastructure.
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Electricity
Transmission Bottlenecks
The Democrat plan only has one vague suggestion
on improving our infrastructure - a suggestion that a study be
conducted on the issue.
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Tax
Incentives for Oil & Gas Companies
The
President does not propose tax incentives for oil companies for
oil production.
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Tax
Incentives for Oil & Gas Companies
The Democrats support tax incentives for oil
companies for oil production.
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Price
Caps
The President opposes price caps because they
will hurt consumers by lowering supply and making blackouts worse
and longer lasting.
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Price
Caps
The Democrats support risky price caps.
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Reducing
Our Dependence on Foreign Oil
The President wants to reduce our dependence
on foreign oil by increasing and diversifying domestic sources
of energy. He supports
clean exploration in a small fraction of ANWR - an area 1/5 the
size of Dulles airport out of a total of 19 million acres.
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Reducing
our Dependence on Foreign Oil
The Democrats oppose exploration in ANWR,
increasing our dependence on foreign oil and leaving consumers
vulnerable to wild price fluctuations.
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Strategic
Petroleum Reserve (SPR)
The President opposes draining SPR because
it will lessen our national security and have no impact on consumer
energy bills. President
Clinton already tried tapping SPR and it didn't have any effect.
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Strategic
Petroleum Reserve (SPR)
The Democrat plan would tap SPR.
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Low
Income Assistance
The President supports increased
funding for LIHEAP.
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Low-Income
Assistance
The Democrat plan supports increased funding
for LIHEAP.
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Clean
Coal
The President supports increased clean coal
research.
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Clean
Coal
Democrats support increased clean coal
research.
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Northeast
Home Heating Oil reserve
The President supports the Reserve.
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Northeast
Home Heating Oil Reserve
The Democrats support the Reserve
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Pipeline
Safety
The President supports increased
pipeline safety.
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Pipeline
Safety
Democrats support increased pipeline
safety
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Nuclear
Power & Waste
The President supports advanced technologies
for nuclear power and wants safe disposal of nuclear waste.
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Nuclear
Power and Waste
The Democrats supports research on
advanced technologies for nuclear power and want safe disposal
of nuclear waste.
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CAFE
Standards
The President calls for
new recommendations for CAFE standards based on the National Academy
of Sciences study due out this summer.
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CAFE
Standards
The Democrats plan calls
for increasing CAFE standards.
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Appliance
Efficiency
The President supports increasing
appliance efficiency.
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Appliance
Efficiency
The Democrats support increasing
appliance efficiency.
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Weatherization
Assistance Funding
The President supports
increased weatherization assistance funding.
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Weatherization
Assistance Funding
The Democrats support
increased weatherization assistance funding.
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Tax
Incentives for Renewables
The President supports tax incentives
for renewable energy.
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Tax
Incentives for Renewables
Democrats support tax incentives
for renewable energy.
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Federal
Power Usage
The President has already directed
the federal government to reduce its energy usage as much as possible
in California and across the country.
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Federal
Power Usage
Democrats support reducing
the federal government's energy usage.
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