Exile posted that Randy Kuhl voted against the Energy bill. I implied in the comments that it was probably due to elimination of some tax subsidies and breaks from large oil. From the Washington Post:

The bill includes $21 billion in tax increases over 10 years, with $13 billion coming from scaling back tax benefits for the five biggest oil companies.

OK - Check out Randy’s Blog. He says the bill,

doesn’t include anything to lower gas prices for American families, doesn’t include anything to help families deal with heating costs this winter, and doesn’t include anything to increase domestic energy production. In fact, the only things that the Democratic energy bill does are to increase taxes, raise gas and home heating costs, and kill American jobs.

Is this bill a short term focused or long term focused bill? Is it supposed to “deal with this winter’s heating cost”?

OK - Where does he get the “kill American jobs” part? Exactly what jobs would those be? The ones the auto industry says will happen if CFE standards are raised? Something Kuhl supports?

The rest of his comments are about earmarks. Sorry - earmarks are a fact of bills in the House. You don’t have to like them, in fact complaining about them is required (Remember the Bridge to nowhere? Was Randy outpoken for that as well?) but - that, unfortunately, is how bills get passed. Sort of like Congressional trips to say… Brazil. You don’t have to like them, but to use earmarks as the primary reason to vote against this bill is an exercise in distraction. Remember all those earmarks when he was in the State government? Those earmarks he gets for the 29th district?

No - this is about taxes. His comments imply how taxes will be raised on regular folks like you and me - plain old working folk.

Well - again, the tax implementations from the Washington Post

21 billion in tax increases over 10 years, with $13 billion coming from scaling back tax benefits for the five biggest oil companies.

Doesn’t sound like plain old working folk to me

It reduces tax credits given for imported raw materials, eliminates scheduled manufacturing tax breaks that would effectively lower the corporate income tax rate by about a percentage point and reduces some tax breaks for geological work.

How many plain old working folk import raw materials?

The bill also extends tax credits for wind power through 2012 and for solar power through 2016. The raises the cap for tax credits for residential solar installations to $4,000 and extends it through the end of 2014.

Oh - extension of tax credits for solar installation. That is bad?

Sorry Randy - need to come clean here. Speaking of Clean - How much money comes from the energy industry? How much soft money comes from pro Business groups like the U.S. Chamber of commerce?

Let’s look at US CoC Spirit of Enterprise award winner Randy Kuhl - remember that post and the chamber’s view on labor? Well, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (really freaking big anti-worker lobbying group) opposes the energy bill too:

The Chamber opposes the House bill because it would fail to produce new energy.

Here are their tax policy and energy policies. I like the “measurable” one under taxes:

Remove competitive tax disadvantages experienced by U.S. multinational corporations.

Yeah, Big Oil needs tax breaks.

Put that in your tank and smoke it next time you fill, and remember how much profit each of those companies makes.