US Senator proposes to ban NOAA from providing free weather information

Under the guise of "modernization", Rick Santorum (R-Pa) is proposing that
any weather service already provided by a for-pay service must be prohibited
from being provided by NOAA.

http://tinyurl.com/cfxzj

(long link:
http://santorum.senate.gov/public/in...TOKEN=83234716 )

Perfect. Now, all I have to do is license the NOAA data for aviation
weather reports, resell the data, and the only folks who will be permitted
to compete with me will be those who also license the data and resell it.
NOAA will have to take all that stuff off their web site, ensuring that the
poor pilot will have to pay *someone* for it.

Yeah, this makes sense.

Pete