Pearls Amid the Pork? Copper and the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Others saw it differently. One nonpartisan commentator, dismissed it as “a politically beneficial way to funnel $14.5 billion to farmers, energy companies and an assortment of pop-culture ideas.” The latter item referring to the array of concepts, programs and actions in the Act designed to develop new energy resources. In other words, pork-barrel politics in high gear. There are, indeed, a few pop-culture ideas nestled among the many programs the Act supports — things like extracting bioenergy from cellulose feedstocks, tapping ocean energy, co-generating hydrogen and electricity from renewable sources and even encouraging (to the tune of $5,150,000) energy conservation through bicycling. MORE >>

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