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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (78938)	8/14/2006 6:16:38 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush-Cheney UN-regulated the oil industry and many other polluting industries. That was their #1 priority coming in, as well as to double energy prices. Bushies undercut the EPA and put oil lobbyists in charge. They no longer do any real regulation or enforcement. The west coast energy gouging was never investigated by Bush's people. Instead, they covered it up. They do not audit the oil companies. They do not pressure big oil to prove it's not gouging. They do not force big oil to do anything. The oil industry is under no pressure from government now whatsoever. And they have no competition. It's one big fat huge monopoly. The federal government is hands-off BP. Only the Alaskan state government has taken some steps. And we in California have a new proposition to start taxing big oil in this state. Every state needs one of those. The best thing to do would be to totally nationalize Big oil, but since we can't do that we need to do the next best thing. That is to regulate-enforce-fine-regulate-enforce-fine. Why? Because big oil has proven that if they're allowed to do whatever they want they will steal-steal-steal, as well as pollute to their heart's content, and corrupt our government in the process. Their waves of dishonest TV ads and disinformation about global warming isn't helpful either.