Can you make sense of this bill?

Here is a tiny snippet from the 1,201 page Waxman Markey cap and trade bill, HR2454.

''(4) Customer Facility Savings - The term "customer facility savings" means a reduction in end use electricity consumption, including recycled energy savings, at a facility of an end-use consumer of electricity served by a retail electric supplier, as compared to -

''(A) in the case of a new facility, consumption at a reference facility of average efficiency;

''(B) in the case of an existing facility, consumption at such facility during a base period, except as provided in subparagraphs (C) and (D);

''(C) in the case of new equipment that replaces existing equipment with remaining useful life, the projected consumption of the existing equipment for the remaining useful life of such equipment, and thereafter, consumption of new equipment of average efficiency of the same equipment type; and

''(D) in the case of new equipment that replaces existing equipment at the end of the useful life of the existing equipment, consumption by new equipment of average efficiency of the same equipment type."

I'm confident few staffers and even fewer congressmen know what this means.

Rather than imposing my educated guess as to what is meant by "customer facility savings" please ask your congressman.

Imagine how many bureaucrats and customer reports will be required to interpret and administer this lonely paragraph.

Then think about how many bureaucrats it will take to administer and interpret the remaining 1,200 pages.

Donn Dears

Geneva