HB20

HB20 __Sponsors:__ K. Sutton, NY, Republican, K. Hermanowski, SC, Democrat,M. Kuryshev, LA, Republican

__Topic:__ Environment and Energy

__Title:__ Protect, Reduce, Progress

__Purpose:__ The purpose of Protect, Reduce, Progress is to do three things which are explained by the title of this bill. The first thing that this bill will do is "Protect" natural habitats from dangerous chemicals such as oil and other fuels that are transferred overseas and held near the sea. There have been over 100 oil spills over the last forty years which has destroyed habitats and endangered or have even driven animals into extinction. "Reduce's" goal is to limit the amount of oil that is used by people in their homes and in factories. The last part of the bill is "progress". People will learn to be more careful and not waste precious resources. They will finally "progress" towards using renewable resources and the overall U.S.A. will become a very green country.

__Eligibility:__ This bill will affect every person and group in the United States because everybody will have to reduce oil consumption along with companies or else they will have to pay large fines.

__Terms and Benefits:__ Protect, Reduce, Progress has two main components and one overall goal. In the protect part, companies that transfer oil overseas and hold the oil in rigs will be required to hold the oil in special steel containers that cannot spill the oil and the rigs that move the oil in pipes will also be reinforced with coatings of steel. With these containers, there will be a near 100% chance that there will be no more oil spills which can harm the environment. If the containers fall into the ocean or any other body of water, they will also be able to float and then people will be able to pick them up later. Then, with no more oil spills, all habitats and environments will improve and not be in as much danger, and there will also be no more lost oil. The second part of this bill will mainly force people to reduce their oil and fuel consumption. Oil companies already monitor how much oil people use and then send them a monthly bill. Now those companies will simply add a fee for people who use too many fuels and then people will be forced to use less fuel. The maximum of fuel consumption will not be outstanding, it will simply let people know not to waste their resources. At the end of the day, people will waste less oil and then the oil crisis will become less of an issue and then the final goal of using less natural resources will be achieved, and as a bonus, the U.S.A will not need to get as much foreign oil from other countries which will boost the economy to.

__Fiscal Impact:__ This bill will need a lot to make sure it works and gets through to the most people. First of all, we will need to have a commercial on a well watched station, so for stations like CNN and NBC that mostly every house hold watches it will cost about 2.5 million dollars ($25,000,000) for 30 seconds, but we also may want our commercial to show on different channels that arent that popular, so that will cost about 400,000 for the same amount of time. Next, since we will need some people to build the steel containers, so we will need to hire engineers, who get paid about $85,000 annually and to build the containers we need about 300 engineers (total of 25,500,000), and possibly even scientists, who get paid approximatly $79,160 annually and we wouldneed at least 50 scientists to work together and create the design for a steel container that can float and hold oil (app. 4,000,000). we also will need to have a lab to test out the steel containers and a large lab costs about $3000/montly (36,000 yearly) depending on where the lab would be located and one lab equiptment set ( EXP: test tubes,pliers, scissors) that would cost approximatly $60 for one full set and i think we would need about 20 sets so that would equal out to about $1200. the iron containers would be about $2 per pound and since each container would weigh 1000lbs so that would be $2000 per iron container and i think we would need about 4-7 containers for each state so in total, for the United States the oil containers would cost $11,000 when you find the average for each state. in total this bill will cost approximatly $28,133,600-$54,548,200 depending on what channels the commercial is on and where we rent space for a year that is little compared to the oil lost and the 8.5 billion dollars that we pay to clean up an oil spill!

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