Bush told reporters he is concerned that regulating carbon dioxide emissions would hinder the efficiency of coal-burning power plants and force greater use of natural gas, whose price this winter spiked to more than double last year's level. This from Dr. Fuckwit Bush Coal, which accounts for half of the nation's electricity generation, has been a relatively cheap fuel for power production. And would still be cheap regardless of the new regulations. The president denied criticism from environmentalists and some congressional Democrats that he acted in response to pressure from industry officials. Corporations should not have rights.
Satin keeps tellin' but nobody is listenin'.
We've got an energy crisis in America that we have to deal with in a commonsense way. His reversal, from a position taken during his campaign, brought sharp criticism from environmentalists and some congressional Democrats and moderate Republicans. The reversal came as three Republican moderates prepared this week to join Democrats in introducing legislation that would require power plants to curtail carbon dioxide by 2007. In the name of money. Boehlert dismissed Bush's explanation that controlling carbon dioxide would lead to higher electricity prices, noting that utilities would have years to deal with the issue and that by then the current electricity price problems likely would have been addressed.