SENATE BILL: Clean Energy Research Act of 2014 (Law'd)

[bore]

Nay

[TNF]

Nay

While I support the overall idea behind this legislation, I don't understand the need to subsidize private industry when we could just do it ourselves and nationalize the sector.

[Adam Griffin]

Nay

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE


Damn this went over like a lead balloon.

[Lumine]

Well, looks like this one will fail... Aye.

[Goldwater]

AYE

[President Tyrion]

Aye

Odd voting bloc we have here

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Odd voting bloc we have here

Ayes: Federalists (so far), Center-right TPPer and one sort of moderate Laborite ()
Nays: The Left Laborites, one fiscally conservative (sort of) Laborite and a center-right DR with a decidedly libertarian bent.

Now that is some serious slicing and dicing.

Actually it kind of makes sense since it when you consider it isn't a right versus left issue like the minimum wage but involves questions of gov't intervention and then who should be doing it between business and gov't. Shua would naturally oppose increasing spending and subsizing things, and in many cases I would agree with him, but energy is like a noose on the economy because it is so monopolized by one resource (less so here but still). The left Laborites want business out of their business. bore either wants that here, opposes the subsidy aspect or a little bit of both maybe.

[DC Al Fine]

Aye

[Cincinnatus]

This is tied with three days left.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

21 hours left here.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Time is up here I think.

[Cincinnatus]

Vote on the Clean Energy Research Act of 2014:

Aye (5): DC, Tyrion, Goldwater, Yankee, and Lumine
Nay (5): Alfred, Griffin, TNF, shua, and bore
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

The vote is currently tied.

[Cincinnatus]

Aye

[Cincinnatus]

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Section 3:

$6 billion shall be appropriated for the specific scientific research of biomass, ethanol, geothermal energy, non-uranium based nuclear power, nuclear fussion power, and solar energy in the form of photovoltaic panels, one billion each.

Section 4:

The Nuclear Power Amendment Act shall be amended as follows:

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[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

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Section 3:

$6 billion shall be appropriated for the specific scientific research of biomass, ethanol, geothermal energy, non-uranium based nuclear power, nuclear fussion power, and solar energy in the form of photovoltaic panels, one billion each.

Section 4:

The Nuclear Power Amendment Act shall be amended as follows:

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x Duke

Luckily I am a sucker for nuclear power.