Here are the people who voted against the Energy Bill

[pstans]

Looks like a lot of the Senators from the Northeast voted against it. McCain and the other Senator from Arizona, Reid from NV, both Senators from California (maybe not enough stuff in it for Solar?), and both Senators from Florida (against off-shore drilling).

Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sununu (R-NH)
Wyden (D-OR)

[MissWaverly]

1. I have heard the energy bill is not what it seems

other than the pork that Delay slipped in, what I have heard that
it will deregulate utility companies further and destabilize the industry, remember Enron and will lead to further price gouging of the
consumers.

[Mass]

2. Good for them - this bill is an horror

Full of subventions for companies, but it does nothing to address problems.

[cosmicdot]

3. so, had 25 Democrats had joined the nays ...

instead of voting yea which gave Bu$hCo, and the secretive Cheney Energy Task Force and Corporate America, (another) victory ... when the time seems ripe for helping country, world and party by delivering some legislative defeats to the White House, especially in light of the mounting scandals ... the Energy Bill might have been defeated? ... CAFTA would have been an opportune back-to-back 'blow' to the WH and Mr. MANdate, too

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Stabenow (D-MI)

and, the Democrats could have introduced, in turn, a real Energy Bill to sell back to their constituents ... the Party does have a comprehensive plan, doesn't it?

of course, successful bullying and arm twisting on the Rs voting nay might have still won the day

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00213

[pstans]

4. Think of the Senators that might run in 08

then look at the people who voted against the Energy Bill.

Kerry
Clinton
McCain
Biden
Feingold

All have been rumored as possible candidates in 2008 and all voted against this bill.

Who might run in 2008 and voted for this bill?
Frist
Bayh