[May 8th, 2008, U.S. House of Representatives] Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and Peak Oil, back together for the x[th] time. Zach Wamp from Tennessee, cheering at the beginning of the clip.
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Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtkq5DdcgYA
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 2]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2M-_5oQCik
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6hzZ1w-1As
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 4]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbReYdVOigs
Congressman Bartlett and Peak Oil Revisited [Part 5]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbm7Fd3E0b4
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(Transcript)
Thank you very much for your observations.
We're doing a number of things in the Congress. It would have been a whole lot better if we were doing them 25, 28 years ago, by the way, because what we're doing in the Congress will not be adequate to meet the challenge. But it's a start. It's what we can do.
I have a book here that came across my desk: ``A Very Unpleasant Truth ..... Peak Oil Production and Its Global Consequences'' by two very credentialed authors, both Ph.Ds from one of our large oil companies. And they say in this book, The first and most important thing that needs to be done is to educate and convince the public that a problem even exists; and that's what I have been trying to do for more than 3 years now. The public must accept, they say, that the current system based on cheap
oil is not sustainable and cannot be kept intact regardless of what politicians promise.
Let me mention quickly four things that I'm personally involved with and personally doing.
We have a new bill just introduced last evening. It is a companion bill to S. 2821 that has enormous support that I will mention very briefly. Our bill is H.R. 5984.
In one of his columns last week, New York Times' Thomas Friedman decried the stalemate that has so far prevented the extension of renewable energy tax credits that would otherwise expire this year. I noted that in some opening comments this evening, and this was one of the things that inspired us to pick up this Senate bill and to file it in the House.
This bill does several things: Extension and modification of the renewable energy production tax credit; extension and modification of the solar energy and fuel cell investment tax credit; clean renewable energy bonds; extension of the special rule to implement FERC restructuring policy; extension and modification of the credit for energy efficiency improvements to existing homes; extension of the tax credit for energy efficient new homes; extension of the energy efficient commercial buildings
deduction; modification and extension of the energy efficient appliance credit.
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