US House passes 25 x 25 Energy Resolution, 25 percent renewable energy target for 2025

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a “25 x ‘25″ Energy Resolution, was introduced by House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) and Ranking Member Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) in January.

The bill calls for 25 percent of US energy consumption energy will come from domestic renewable resources by 2025. US annual fuel consumption is slightly over 200 billion gallons.

Also last week, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) introduced a new energy bill that would increase the renewable fuel standard to 18 billion gallons by 2016, compared to the 36 billion target for 2022 set in the Energy Bill passed by the Senate in July. The Senate and House have not been able to agree on an Energy Bill; the House version did not include a renewable fuel mandate.

In Washington, lawmakers have all but abandoned a conference to resolve differences between the Senate and House versions of the 2007 Energy Bill, focusing on new legislation to reconcile differences.

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