Congress is on empty for energy bills

Courtesy Marketplace  Fri, 07/25/2008 - 15:02

The number of energy bills Congress has passed comes to exactly zero. So if $4-a-gallon gas and oil at $125 a barrel isn't enough of a crisis to get lawmakers going, what is?

Sam Eaton reports.


 

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