This post originated here.
I saw this article from the AP today. It is basically a look at energy costs and Mr. Bush, a look into his energy policy. Towards the end of the piece, Bush is quoted as follows:
Bush said high prices are “like a foreign tax on the American dream.” He challenged Congress to send him an energy bill by August and described the proposal as making energy “more affordable and secure” in the future.
I’ll go easy on him first. I have no problem with securing energy sources, OIL is not secure. In fact the scarcity of oil, oil that will be all but gone in my lifetime, makes pursuing oil sources and not alternatives indicates a warped idea of security. It stinks of greed.
Now for the American dream part. This statement is
- Arrogant.
- Ignorant.
- and disconnected from reality.
In fact, I believe that Americans need the wake up from that dream and get serious. If anything, America gets a huge hand-out on energy (at least oil) when compared to the rest of the world.
The article continues stating correctly that his drive for cheap oil has been “complicated by his own actions.” He attacked Iraq and soured relations with many in the free world, primarily Venezuela.
Then Bush is quoted blaming the Clinton Administration, saying Clinton “must jawbone OPEC members to lower prices.”
It ends with
Jerry Taylor, an energy analyst at the Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank that advocates less government regulation, said the idea that “jawboning OPEC or arranging for nice relations with OPEC will somehow get us more oil is utter illusion.”
“The Saudis will produce as much oil as they think is necessary to maximize revenue. Period,” Taylor said.
We need to wake up this president, this population. Not for politics but for our future…
I’m not sure that Bush-Cheney have any interest in alternative energy. But I do think their energy policy is an enormous weakness, and I think Dems should run on a realistic energy plan in 2006. Give us a majority and we’ll give you a real energy plan.
BTW- your diary needs a little editing. You seems to have pasted part of it twice.
Thanks man ;/
Bush will never wake up but hopefully the public might start thinking for a change and wonder what the hell is going on with our so called ‘energy’policy.
The new energy bill passed by the House has some 12 BILLION in giveaway’s to the traditional energy companies like oil, coal and gas. No new standards at all for making cars/trucks more fuel efficient and also safeguards big oil companies from getting sued. For such things as ground water contamination or other practices of theirs causing this kind of damage to so many communities. (who may have to do clean up themselves costing billions to say nothing of the cost of human lives from some of those polluting practices.)
We should call it by it’s true name which is Energy Giveaway and Disaster Plan not any policy that will actually benefit the country and the general public.