ELECTRIC GSE ON HOLD?

Is it just my impression, or has the move to electric GSE slowed down ever since Congress announced that it was not going to take up climate change?  From my travels around the country, it seems to me that ground support companies that were planning to buy new equipment or were considering retrofits are now holding off. No one has actually said that Congress's inaction was behind their change of heart; certainly not in those words.  But it has just seemed that by taking climate change off the front pages, the impetus for change has drifted. Of course, my perception of a slow down could just be another sign that the downturn in the economy - yes, this latest downturn- is affecting investment in equipment.   it's too early to have empirical data on purchases but I hope my perception is wrong.  This is no time to stop imvestment in clean tchnology. And it is no time to stop investing in new GSE.  There is an awful lot of old and beat up equipment out there.  That equipment is not only old and inefficient from an energy perspective; it is also just plain inefficient.  Inefficiency takes its toll on ground operations, especially when personnel is stretched so thin.