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Energy companies (and genetic engineers) are quite perfectly qualified to say "we can do this, and we can do that, and we can do the other" yet where they fall down is on the question of whether or not they should do this, that and the other.
This is where environmentalists come in. Of course they're extremists of another kind altogether, so whatever they say has to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt. But it can't be passed off as a coincidence that the current administration, comprised of representatives of the party of big business, is parroting whatever big business has to say about energy policy.
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quote:The industry representatives who met with the energy secretary have financial ties to the Bush administration and Republican Party. From 1999 to 2002, the 103 individuals and organizations donated more than $22 million to GOP causes, compared with $7 million to the Democrats, the [Center for Responsive Politics ] reported.
It seems to me little wonder why the present administration is trying to hide who it met with.
quote:Opening the deliberative process to more contrarian views would probably not have deflected Mr. Bush's advisers from the aggressively pro-industry strategy they favored from the start, a strategy that relies heavily on increasing supplies of traditional fossil fuels like oil, natural gas and coal. Still, it is distressing that on a matter of this magnitude so few opposing voices were heard. It is no less disturbing that the industries that had the most to gain — many of them major campaign contributors — played such an intimate and influential role in conceiving the final product.
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-------------------- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ~ohn Adams
Once again the Bush Administration is worse than I had imagined, even though I thought I had already taken account of the fact that the Bush administration is invariably worse than I can imagine. ~Brad DeLong
You're just babbling incoherently. ~C. Montgomery Burns
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