bush advisors say
May. 18th, 2001 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saint_monkeythat the president will continue to act like an idiot well into the forseeable future.
bush, bush, bush!
i'd love to get a look at that man's portfolio!
today he told everyone that we are suffering the worst crisis since the 70's, and spat out the following quote:
his solution to the "energy crisis" involves:
In a rebuttal Jimmy Carter said:
I pretty much agree, it seems that we can't trust any policy from an administration full of texans who made their living (or didn't make their living, in w's case) from the fucking oil industry! And still have vested interests in that very field.
The only bright spots in all of this is the scant (in comparison) attention paid to hybrid gas-electric vehicles, tax credits for use of solar panels (and other alternate energies,) in home construction, and development of methane fuel from landfills.
bush, bush, bush!
i'd love to get a look at that man's portfolio!
today he told everyone that we are suffering the worst crisis since the 70's, and spat out the following quote:
"If we fail to act, this country could face a darker future" -gwb
his solution to the "energy crisis" involves:
- quicker registration and reactivation of nuclear power plants
- a review of whether the United States should drop its ban on nuclear plants powered by reprocessed fuel
- reduce regulations on the energy industry to encourage more output from coal-fired plants
- drill in the alaskan reserve
"ANWAR can produce 600,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 40 years... That happens to be the exact amount of oil we import from Iraq" -GWB - New authority for the government to seize land for new electricity transmission lines.
- a review of sanctions that could possibly limit U.S. companies from taking a lead in developing oil and other energy resources in the Caspian Sea
In a rebuttal Jimmy Carter said:
"No energy crisis exists now that equates in any way with those we faced in 1973 and 1979. World supplies are adequate and reasonably stable, price fluctuations are cyclical, reserves are plentiful, and automobiles aren't waiting in line at service stations. Exaggerated claims seem designed to promote some long-frustrated ambitions of the oil industry at the expense of environmental quality."
I pretty much agree, it seems that we can't trust any policy from an administration full of texans who made their living (or didn't make their living, in w's case) from the fucking oil industry! And still have vested interests in that very field.
The only bright spots in all of this is the scant (in comparison) attention paid to hybrid gas-electric vehicles, tax credits for use of solar panels (and other alternate energies,) in home construction, and development of methane fuel from landfills.
