FIFTY WAYS TO... HATE A BILL!

SPECIAL-INTEREST SOPS
1. Free money for well-connected business interests.
2. A little something for Goldman Sachs. Again.
3. Alcoa and Dupont get their share. The utilities, too.
4. A tree grows in Botswana.
5. Selling indulgences.
6. Protecting refineries.
7. All carrot, no stick for the farm lobby.
8. Replacing the EPA with the USDA.
9. Ignoring ethanol’s impact.
10. Buying off electric cooperatives.
11. Monsanto rounds up favors.
12. Interfering with free trade.
13. Billions for “international clean technology.”
14. Inflating union wages.

NON-CAP MANDATES
15. Establishing “renewable” standards.
16. Trading “renewable” credits.
17. Excluding the clean sources.
18. Meet the “Carbon Storage Research Corporation.”
19. Carbon, dead and buried.
20. Restricting coal-fired plants.
21. The candelabra clause.
22. Everything, and the kitchen sink.
23. High-class refrigerators.
24. Your green house.
25. Commercial properties also pay to go green (twice!).
26. The EPA in the back seat.
27. Fuel-efficiency standards.
28. Greenhouse-gas registry.
29. Stopping states’ innovation.

GREEN DREAMS
30. Park-’n’-plug mandates.
31. Electrifying Detroit.
32. Biofuel mandates.
33. That ethanol pipeline, again.
34. Cash for clunky microwaves.
35. $15 billion for the wind industry.
36. Truckin’ money.
37. Winning the DOE lottery.
38. $1.5 billion for Hollings.
39. $65 million for gas turbines. You’re welcome, GE!
40. Promoting ethanol, again.

VARIOUS WISH FULFILLMENT
41. Shunt money onto campus.
42. Community-organizers get their piece.
43. Tax-code income redistribution.
44. The new monthly welfare check.
45. Put ’em out of work, then pay them.
46. Dozens of new government offices and agencies.
47. Bambi’s payday.
48. The wrong kind of federalism.
49. Greening health-care spending.
50. Investing in “emerging” careers.

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