Today, the Senate Finance Committee released its version of the Health Care Reform package.  Now our national leaders have something to negotiate that should lead to a final bill.

Remember the Cap and Trade Legislation that cleared the House earlier this year?  Right, neither does anyone else.

It seems likely that the time between now and Thanksgiving will be taken up with getting health care done, but then we have to immediately move on to protecting the climate.

Luckily, the Obama lead government is taking steps in the right direction even while the legislative push is focused on health care.  The EPA issued new mileage standards for the auto industry today, and the incentives for energy efficiency in the government stimulus plan are being spent at a faster and faster clip.

Speaking of faster and faster, are we all ready to lobby and show our commitment to climate change legislation when our turn comes?  We better be, or the forces of the status quo (read big coal and big oil) will get the upper hand.  Their powder has been kept dry during the summer, but it is ready to burn at a moments notice.

It is going to take the people, business and government working together to make the changes necessary to achieve endependence, energy independence that ends dependence on polluting fuels.

On your mark, get set, ……….