I have uploaded the entire 233-page (!) “Discussion Draft” of the bipartisan bill here . I have blogged on many of the main elements in the summary (see links below). But as you can imagine in a bill this long, a lot of provisions are not in the summary.
Some of the provisions are fluff, like the entire 12-page Title I — “National Commission on Energy Independence.” Just what we need, another commission.
Some provisions are useful clarification. As I hoped, Title II makes clear that the “consumer tax credits for advanced vehicles” is focused on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), see Section 202 (page 17). The tax credit is “$2,500, plus $400 for each kilowatt hour of traction battery capacity in excess of 4 kilowatt hours” with a cap at $7,500. A midsized PHEV might consume 0.3 to 0.4 kilowatt-hours per mile when it runs on electricity (yes, Toyota may well do better than that, but...
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Please.
So as Andrew Leonard writes in his “ How the World Works ” blog, this all began with a column by
Toronto Star energy reporter Tyler Hamilton that itself had summarized the conclusions of a study raising questions about whether it always makes sense to replace incandescent light bulbs with CFLs. The nub of the argument was that in some cases the heat generated by the incandescent light bulbs could be useful.
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