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To: JohnM who wrote (110254)	4/20/2005 12:13:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 793717

The amount of retraction of environmental regulations alone is enough to make the case. No it isn't. Environmental regulation has no gone down under Bush or probably under any modern president. It continues to expand. Its possible that some particular regulation was scaled back or changed in such a way that has a negative environmental impact, but the overall burden of regulation has increased. It certainly is true that certain proposed new or expanded regulations didn't go through but that isn't a roll back of regulation. My original statement was "Regulation is extensive right now and there is no great likelyhood of any current legal, political or social trend reversing that fact." Even if Bush has scaled back regulation over all or specifically environmental regulation (which he has not done) it would be at the margin. You print out the environmental regulation that is currently active and you couldn't carry it in a pick up truck, you might not even be able to fit it in to an big rig. The cost to comply with it all is in the hundreds of billions range. There is no reasonably way that can not be considered extensive, and the chance of that situation changing is minimal. Tim