Bush Administration
National
Energy Policy
The energy plan contains
105 recommendations, 42 of them focused on conservation and alternative
fuels. Twenty of the recommendations would require congressional
action.
Key Recommendations
Infrastructure
- Expand federal authority
to obtain rights-of-way for electricity transmission lines, using
eminent domain if necessary.
- Review whether to relax
clean air rules to give refiners more flexibility in producing
and distributing gasoline.
- Improve pipeline safety
and expedite pipeline permitting.
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Conservation
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- Expand a current 10 percent
tax credit for all-electric vehicles to include gas-electric
hybrids and future fuel cell vehicles. Estimated cost over 10
years: $4 billion.
- Provide tax benefits and
regulatory relief for cogeneration plants, which produce both
heat and electricity.
- Expand federal Energy
Star program to include not only businesses but schools, homes
and hospitals.
- Study whether to require
higher vehicle mileage standards.
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Environment
- Promote technologies to
limit environmental impacts.
- Pass law with a flexible
cap on power plant emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide
and mercury.
- Develop technologies and
market-based incentives to combat global warming. Nuclear power
is cited as an energy source that doesn't emit the gases tied
to global warming.
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Renewables
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- Extend wind energy production
tax credits.
- Offer 15 percent residential
tax credit for users of solar power.
- Order Interior Department
to address permitting delays in geothermal plants.
- Streamline licensing procedures
for hydropower plants.
- Boost research funding
and continue tax credits for biofuels, which are made from crop
and farm animal waste.
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Supply
Oil/gas
- Allow drilling on more
federal lands, including 2,000 of the 19 million acres of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
- Offer new tax incentives
to encourage production.
- Order federal agencies
to consider the impact on energy supplies when writing regulations.
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Coal
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- Boost research funding
and create tax breaks for clean coal technology to
cut power plant emissions.
- Review clean air rules
with possibility of easing them.
- Streamline licensing of
coal-fired power plants.
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Nuclear Power
- Streamline licensing procedures
for plants.
- Offer tax breaks to encourage
financial stablity and more electricity production.
- Reauthorize 1988 law limiting
plant liability in major accidents.
- Consider reviving technology
that reuses nuclear reactor fuel to produce electricity.
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International
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- Review economic sanctions
policies against Iraq, Iran and Libya, three major oil exporting
nations.
- Direct Secretary of State
Colin Powell to step up diplomatic efforts to expand oil production
in Latin America, Asia and Caspian Sea nations such as Azerbaijan.
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