Running Out of Steam
April 28th, 2005When Business Week, hardly a partisan of left wing environmental concerns, is not afraid to headline with a searing indictment of the president’s lack of leadership on the issue of energy, accusing him and his administration of Blowing Smoke on Energy Policy, people should start taking serious notice.
When the official answer to gasoline and oil prices sky rocketing through the roof produces a Tommy Flanagan-like punch line of, "Yeah… that’s it, technology’s the ticket," people should start getting concerned.
When it is suggested that the road to energy "independence" is paved with building oil refineries on old military bases and making nuclear plants more prominent and less regulated, without any mention of how to deal with the inevitable increase of hazardous waste, nor any mention of clean alternatives such as wind or solar energy, you can bet your sweet ass that your leader has sold you off for somebody else’s profit.