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  2007 Energy Bill Guarantees Disaster Ahead

  George Bush and the US Senate should be deeply ashamed of advancing the self-destruction of the human species. "Bush" will forever be a "four letter word". Scientists agree that global climate change, assisted and accelerated by human activities, is well under way and must be reversed inside of the next 10 years or dire circumstances will strike. Bush's crime is to enshrine "too little, too late" as the policy of the US. Senate Republicans share the blame. Weak Democratic members of the House should be condemned for giving in to Republican and Senate short-sightedness. The "President from Oil" has assured maximum oil company profits (as stockpiles shrink), pork-barrel biofuels boondoggles, and pathetically inadequate levels of energy conservation and auto efficiency (CAFE standards). The loss of real financial and policy supports for solar, wind, energy conservation, and energy efficiency (costing millions compared with many billions for oil and auto industries) will guarantee anguish and suffering that will make the 1929 market crash and subsequent depression look like a warm summer holiday. Grandchildren worldwide will curse December 18, 2007, and the US, with a level of contempt that far exceeds September 11. On Bush signs diluted energy bill into law posted 1 year, 10 months ago 5 Responses