Half the gasoline price at the pump is taxes. Clinton refuses to open oil reserves in Rocky Mountain States or Alaska. Gore promises, if elected President, to ban any new offshore along California and Florida coasts. Clinton has locked up the cleanest coal by designating a huge park in Utah. The EPA is threatening to close eight coal-fired plants.
Gas pipelines are now almost impossible to build.
Since 1993, the DOD has had an Office of Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Environmental Security. Like AIDS, environmental issues are being made into national security issues, so that the Clinton-Gore Administration can use the military to advance the Gore Green agenda. The Army now plans to use lead-free bullets, replacing the lead with tungsten. The latter is much more expensive, less effective in disabling an enemy, and highly destructive of gun barrels. A strong positive correlation between health and wealth has long been recognized.