Comparison of Competing Plans
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The President\’s Energy Plan |
The Democrats\’ Plan |
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Total Recommendations The President\’s plan makes 105 specific recommendations. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) The Democrat plan would tap SPR. |
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Low Income Assistance The President supports increased funding for LIHEAP. |
Low-Income Assistance The Democrat plan supports increased funding for LIHEAP. |
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Clean Coal The President supports increased clean coal research. |
Clean Coal Democrats support increased clean coal research. |
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Northeast Home Heating Oil reserve The President supports the Reserve. |
Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve The Democrats support the Reserve |
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Pipeline Safety The President supports increased pipeline safety. |
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. |
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. |
CAFE Standards The Democrats plan calls for increasing CAFE standards. |
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Appliance Efficiency The President supports increasing appliance efficiency. |
Appliance Efficiency The Democrats support increasing appliance efficiency. |
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Weatherization Assistance Funding The President supports increased weatherization assistance funding. |
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. |
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. |
Federal Power Usage Democrats support reducing the federal government\’s energy usage. |