energy standard which is to every one of the 50 states you have these targets that you have to hit. here is the standard. go out and hit it. without that, we can t hit the targets. today there were some promising news. the white house signals the standard push would be in budget reconciliation. how much do you think this stuff is in flux from where the folks you are talking with stand? people are following the news just like you are. it s critical. but 30 states already passed it. it is a common sense proposal that s a moderate proposal. we should have it. it should be included in the plan. but there should be a plan for transportation. and currently the manshin-romney plan has reduced the investment in electric vehicles by 90%. it s also reduced the amount of money going into clean up for lead pipes by half. so if you are not going to take this opportunity to make a down payment on the single biggest crisis facing american families
exxon has been secretly lobbying this group of senators who are supporting the plan, moderates on both sides. and exxon is doing whatever it can to make sure the package is, one, does the least amount of possible to reign in exxon and deal with the climate crisis and, two, make the bill unpopular. what they re doing right now is not his jobs plan. what was really great where the biden administration defined bipartisanship as what is popular with independent voters, not just politicians like mitt romney. i think that s what voters are hoping for today. you know, the thing that i have been really focussed on is the clean energy standard, and it s what exxon is focussed on and what a lot of fossil fuel companies are focussed on. in the package there is huge investments. but outside of dollars and cents, like a national clean
pressing from the other direction. i think the argument you would make if you were the white house is basically like, look, we need 50 votes in the senate. we don t have 50 votes in the senate for the reconciliation american jobs plan that we proposed and want. so we got to take what we can get. right? well, i would say look at the past week. 230 americans have died in the pacific northwest from the heat waves. and i think this is the last shot this country has to deal with the climate crisis that today millions of americans and billions of people across the globe are dealing with. what people are saying on the hill is that this so-called bipartisan package might not have the votes to house in the house and senate. people aren t calling it the bipartisan plan anymore, at least progressive democrats. they re calling it the romney exxon plan because exxon mobile is very happy about this plan. it was just reported today that