Now that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided to pull the plug on the energy bill, it will be dormant until the Senate returns after Labor Day.

Victory? Not quite.

During the August recess, we ought to turn our attention to building opposition to the spill bill, Obama’s drilling moratorium, the renewable-electricity standard for utilities, the subsidies for various miracle vehicles, subsidies for fuels we abandoned years ago as costly and/or inefficient, cap-and-trade, the EPA’s endangerment finding and greenhouse-gas regulations, the EPA’s regulations to shut down coal mining in Appalachia, and no doubt a few more energy-rationing policies that some pressure group, rent-seeking utility, or mad climate scientist has scribbled on the back of an envelope.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t seen the great state of Texas’s response to the EPA’s attempted greenhouse-gas power grab, here it is. With its tightly argued contempt for the EPA, this six-page document is worth a read. Here’s my colleague Will Yeatman’s take.