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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (164319)	7/25/2001 11:02:09 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

>>>>Not Really, Germany has a LOT of coal. And anyvon who objekts vill be shott! They currently use 25% more coal per unit of GDP than the US. I guess in Germany the techno's who are left figure coal is the best thing to use to reduce green house gases. tom watson tosiwmee

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (164319)	7/25/2001 3:25:59 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

"Germany has a LOT of coal. And anyvon who objekts vill be shott! " We have a lot more coal than Germany and the biggest producer is Wyoming....The biggest user in the country is the state of Texas...Gee, Wyoming and Texas, why are those two states familiar ... Could there be any connection between these facts and the Bushies objection to Kyoto?? nytimes.com Which says, in part... "Then, unexpectedly, what one analyst has called "the Perfect Storm" hit the energy industry. Rolling blackouts in California demonstrated that electricity is not something that's created by wall outlets; the price of natural gas shot up to $10 from $2.50 per million B.T.U.; and finally, George W. Bush of Texas, the state that consumes more coal than any other in the country, together with Dick Cheney, who hails from the largest coal-producing state in the country, won the White House. Two months after taking office, in an about-face that outraged environmentalists, President Bush "clarified" his campaign pledge to begin regulating carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants, effectively killing the international Kyoto treaty on global warming. Considering that American coal-powered plants pump 2.3 billion tons of CO2 into the air each year -- twice as much as the amount emitted by cars -- Bush's turnaround was a godsend. Then in May, the administration announced an "energy plan" that openly championed coal, positioning it as America's favored source of electricity generation for decades to come. "