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

To: CVJ who wrote (166793)	8/1/2001 8:30:47 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Parts of the story are all over but the whole thing is still being put together. Journalists, Calif State and Senate investigators are just beginning. We need to see Cheney's papers and to investigate inside the energy industry itself. Duke, Enron are others who have refused to hand over papers. They all need to be subpoenaed. All of them. The evidence will emerge. Just common sense this whole story. My ego has nothing to do with it. It's just something I care about. The environment and corruption in government are my two main issues. I only mention the reporters because someone called my ideas "silly". Actually my ideas are going to be very mainstream in a short time. It's actually a very tragic chapter of American history and it is being written as we speak. Watch the Lieberman investigation but don't expect it all to come out quickly. This is a complex web and none of the Energy Cartel are going to hand over documents willingly. Too much Gary Condit in the news now too to turn attention to more important matters. Just like OJ and Monica, these scandal stories take up all the air-time. Hard to believe as no one even knows if three's a crime with Chandra Levy. I'd say it will take a six month investigation unless something breaks sooner, a whistle-blower or an accident like the Watergate burglary. But I do agree with 60% of Californians now, that the energy crisis never really existed and was manufactured by the energy cartel. So call me wrong if you like but you call them wrong too. I'm convinced we're right and that it spreads even farther, that is energy prices being deliberately used as a three-pronged political weapon by Bush-Cheney and cronies (at least so long as they can get away with it). Reading their statements I have to say the energy cartel does believe in itself. They think they're entitled to more money, total deregulation and much more of our environment. Then they give soft money to the GOP and control that party. Conservation and cleaner energy sources never even cross their minds because that's the way they're programmed to think. And since oil, NG, coal and nukes have all gotten together it's a big Us Against Them mentality with the White House as their once in a lifetime advantage and ace in the hole. They are trying to make the most out of it that they can. They say prices are too low. Adjusted for inflation we don't pay enough, they say. I don't really blame them for trying to gouge with Bush-Cheney in power but we are the ones who suffer the consequences. You saw what happened from July to March. Only Jeffords moved stopped it ebcause they knew what they were doing is illegal and suddenly there's a cop on the beat called the US Senate. As for the argument we need more energy development, fine, build a Canadian pipeline and others, drill in a few new places that aren't the last refuges of important species, but think forward not backwards, don't cut efficency, don't refuse to fund alternative energy programs, don't veto Kyoto, don't sell out. There comes a point where oil and coal just aren't worth it anymore. Ethanol is a step in the right direction but conservation tax credits and a big federal (because no one else can do it) effort to tap alternative fuels makes a lot more sense. In Germany they already get 10% of their power from wind for instance. They have or are cutting emissions 20% without losing one job. We have plenty of wind, sun, hydrogen, etc. and the best part is it's free. That's where the big effort ought to go from Detriot to Houston, not in bringing back the days of more pollution but in finding much more progressive ways of fueling America, and the world. Europe in this sense is way ahead of us. The difference there is their government isn't controlled to a great degree by the polluting energy producers themselves. And ours is now. Big mistake for America. In my experience whatever is good for Big Oil is bad for the rest of America including our general economy. And more soft money corruption is doubly bad. Remember that. And anything they tell you now take with a big grain of salt. They are covering up now and will do so even more as the heat is on. Watch the lies and remember on election day who is was who picked your pocket and lied to you.