'Climate' pressure group admits real agenda is just getting money

NY Times: ""Every now and then, you'll talk of maybe an

• energy-only bill.

We think that would be unfortunate" (Climatewire, April 7).

Another problem is money. The incentives and other programs in the Bingaman bill are expected to cost $13.5 billion.

• The original idea was to pay that with money from a cap-and-trade plan.

"If we ditch the climate side and just go with energy, how are we going

• to pay for all this spending?" said Kate Gordon,
  

• vice president for energy policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank."...

from NY Times, Greenwire, "Senate road for 'energy-only' bill isn't as easy as some would hope," Soraghan, 4/14/10, via Tom Nelson