I found the engineer!

Image via WikipediaI found the engineer/conductor of the Crazy Train - Rand Paul.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee may have entered a new era of partisanship. 

The committee famous for working across party lines faced heavy resistance yesterday from Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky as it marked up its first legislation of the new Congress.

The tea party favorite voted against bipartisan energy efficiency and hydropower measures from panel Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and ranking member Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).

The efficiency measure (S. 398 (pdf)), which would strengthen and improve energy efficiency standards for a number of consumer products, drew particular attention from Paul. He offered an amendment that would remove the enforcement authority from a broad law that imposes efficiency standards on a number of products. The bill under consideration yesterday would amend that law to add the additional appliance standards.


"I think that to be consistent with a free society, we should make them voluntary," Paul said of the standards, before launching the committee into a discussion of Ayn Rand's 1937 novel "Anthem" about individual choice.

Rand Paul - shoveling coal into the Crazy Train furnace.  Full steam ahead to a FREE SOCIETY.  Not a healthy air or water society but...