Originally posted by: Czar
bush cut funding to alternative fuel research???
Read what I said. Reagan came into office and completely gutted the alternative energy initiatives championed by President Carter. Bush I, being a complete whore for the oil industry for decades, continued on this path. Bush II, along with Cheney and his top secret meetings with energy industry officials who dictated U.S. energy policy (I wonder why Cheney was do adamant about hiding the facts behidn THOSE meetings) followed in the very same direction.
Now we have the USA bogged down in an unnecessary war in a nation that owns the world's second or third largest oil reserves while energy prices skyrocket. Add to that Enron's fleecing of the West Coast energy markets in 2001 and 2002. Add to that the wholesale giveaway of America's forests to the logging industry and what picture do you get?
I get a progression of Republican administrations completely controlled by short sighted corporate interests that they don't give a damn about energy costs, the environment, or Americans other that a very few of their friends who sit on those corporate boards.
When Bush successfully overthrew the U.S. government, gas prices were around $1 per gallon. They're $3 per gallon now AFTER Bush's unnecessary, unprovoked attack against Iraq.
Does that make sense to you? It doesn't make sense to me. Unless you realize that the energy industry, in collusion with the Bush administration, is fleecing America for every cent they can get. Just like they did on the West Coast back in 2001-2002 when they got the green light from their lackies in the Bush White House.