On 01/14/2010 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a speech before the Geothermal Energy Association, repeated his intention to move a comprehensive energy and climate bill this spring, presumably after a “jobs” bill and a financial reregulation bill are dealt with. As stated earlier, we view the prospects for such a comprehensive energy and climate bill to be poor.

Indeed, given the shifting political environment favoring Republicans, Reid would do well to pass what he can in the form of a scaled down energy-only bill such as the one that passed out of the Senate Energy Committee on a bipartisan basis last summer.

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