But this target has not been reached and CO2 releases have increased. Big business and their tame governments are reluctant to cut the use of fossil fuels. Many of the biggest companies in the world are based on fossil fuels, including the automobile industry, both building cars and constructing roads, the airline industry, and the oil producers themselves. A cut in the use of fossil fuels threatens their profits. The USA in particular is hooked on fossil fuels.
Gasoline is cheaper than bottled water.
The crisis is due to the deregulation of the electricity companies and the failure to change to energy saving policies. Bush's response is to ignore all that and instead to lift all the air pollution controls on electricity generation, allowing the release of dangerous chemicals. He is also planning to allow the extraction of oil, with inevitable environmental damage, in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He has previously stated that oil can be extracted in an 'environmentally sensitive' manner, in spite of the long history of disasters such as the wrecking of the Exxon Valdez. Bush is closely linked to the energy industry and, rather than tackle the root problems, he wants to keep feeding the fossil fuel junkies.