Final Paper Summary

History and Background of the Bill:
Energy consumption across the United States is on the rise. People consume food, fresh water, wood, minerals, and energy as we go about our daily lives. Producing food, pumping groundwater, harvesting wood, mining minerals, and burning fuel all deplete our resource base. As the production of energy becomes more expensive, the need for government intervention is required. Climate change, natural resource extraction, population growth, and urbanism are among the many issues affecting energy consumption.
The bill I chose for my paper topic is HR 2300. The title of the bill is: To provide the United States with a comprehensive energy package to place Americans on a path to a secure economic future through increased energy innovation, conservation, and production. This bill is very broad and encompasses most of the energy consumption used in the US including solar, wind, nuclear energy, coal-to-liquid plant property energy, and clean coal power plants (to name a few). It also allows for permanent tax credits for increasing research activities, pollution abatement equipment, the manufacture of natural gas-powered vehicles, nuclear power manufacturing and construction projects, and carbon dioxide capture from industrial sources.