Never has a Western government, let alone a single administration, let alone a single "president," been so intimately entwined with a single industry. Read all about Bush the oil man, who will send our planet into the hothouse and make life miserable for our grandchildren and cause the deaths of our great-grandchildren.

Sunday April 1, 2001

The Observer

Global warming

The President Who Bought Power and Sold the World

George Bush's decision to ignore global warming and pull the plug on Kyoto is payback for the energy industries which backed him.

The story behind the singular determination of Bush to fly in the face of world opinion, the sentiments of most Americans and even many in his own government reveals adherence to ideological rigour and a payment of debts to the business interests that helped him to the White House - above all, oil and coal. Oil runs through every sinew and vein of the Bush administration; rarely, if ever, has a Western government been so intimately entwined with a single industry.

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,466615,00.html

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USA TODAY.

USA Today (Apr 3, 2001)

Bush trades global-warming concerns for energy profits

By DeWayne Wickham

Bush's abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol followed an announcement that he will break his campaign promise to force power plants to reduce their carbon-dioxide emissions. Bush said his reversal is driven by a looming energy crisis; but it's more likely a reward to the coal industry that helped him win the Democratic stronghold of West Virginia in the presidential election. When it comes to the fruits of his victory, Bush is more inclined to place the interests of his corporate supporters ahead of the voters.

What passes for an environmental policy in the Bush administration is actually a plan to expand the profits of domestic energy companies at the risk of a worldwide climate catastrophe. These temperature changes, in the long run, pose a greater threat to Americans than the economic turndown that Bush pretends to fear.

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010403/3198369s.htm

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Tuesday, April 3, 2001 San Jose Mercury News

EDITORIAL

Our SUVs rule, Bush tells the world

``We will not do anything that harms our economy, because first things first are the people who live in America,'' said President George W. Bush, dismissing the international treaty aimed at slowing global warming.

So those Nervous Nellies around the world are just going to have to understand that Americans have SUVs to fuel up and air conditioners to crank up. Just the other week, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham forecast a ``major energy supply crisis.'' You can bet he didn't call for more windmills.

In short order, Bush has managed to reinforce the impression that he is a captive of the fossilized thinkers in the field of energy and of the ``we did it our way'' school of international diplomacy.

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/opinion/edit/KYOTO.htm

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Dear Mr. President . . .

For the first time in eight years, we have a new man in the White House. George W. Bush presides over a divided nation, but one thing is clear: Most Americans want the environment protected.

We [Audubon Magazine] asked 16 scientists and other thinkers a single question:

What should President Bush do?

1) Martha Marks

President of Republicans for Environmental Protection

"President Bush must lead America away from fossil fuels to a bright future built upon renewable, clean energy. As long as we insist on drilling, digging, and burning fossil fuels, the American people will always be fighting a rear-guard defense of our air and water; the global climate; and our national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, coastlines, and other beloved places. The technology and economics are right for this transformation today. Only the political barriers remain to be cleared away. This is where presidential leadership can make a difference.

"Freeing America from its foolhardy dependence on fossil fuels could be President Bush's greatest legacy--a legacy that even Theodore Roosevelt might envy."

http://magazine.audubon.org/forum/forum0103.html

http://www.thegreenscene.com/shows/094.html

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Editorial 2/5/01

By David Gergen editor at large

Bush as global steward

The United States is not living up to its responsibilities as a steward of the Earth, and the world is now looking to George W. Bush for personal leadership.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010205/5edit.htm

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THE DIRTY TRUTH

George W. Bush's Oil and Chemical Dependency

By Rick Abraham Forward by Terry O'Rourke

The Enviromental Record, the Campain Money, & His Political Agenda for the Nation

http://www.mainstreampublishers.com/

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Monday, 29 January, 2001, 11:09 GMT Analysis: Oil and the Bush cabinet

What makes the new Bush administration different from previous wealthy cabinets is that so many of the officials have links to the same industry - oil.

The concentration of energy connections is so pronounced that some critics are calling the Bush government the "oil and gas administration".

There are also questions about how energy policy decisions may be affected by the private financial interests of so many senior cabinet members.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1138000/1138009.stm

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Global warming: full steam ahead

The change of power in Washington doesn't bode well for the future of the planet, writes environment correspondent Paul Brown

Special report: global warming

Monday January 22, 2001

It seems ironic that on the day the world's scientists issue a report saying the problem is escalating, the new US president should say he is not sure whether global warming is a reality or a threat.

One of the ironies is that some of the best and most influential scientists who have come to these conclusions are American, yet they have a Texan oil man, President George W Bush, who is not convinced of their arguments.

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/globalwarming/story/0,7369,426530,00.html

http://www.bushisms.com/index1.html (Click on "Why Dick Cheney?")

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Geology 100 Univerisity of Wisconson Prof. Thomas Detwyler

"The program of the devotees of fossil-fuel is a formula for further concentration of wealth and power: keep society hooked on petroleum and uranium; delay the solar transition until the oil and gas are too costly to recover; then burn up the coal and slap a meter on the sun." --Daniel M. Berman and John T. O'Connor, 1996, Who Owns the Sun

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/courses/geog100/PetroleumUse.htm ---------------- Contributions from corporate foundations to national environmental organizations soared during the 1980s, accounting for a significant, if not controlling, portion of the budgets of groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council [NRDC], the Environmental Defense Fund [EDF], and The Wilderness Society. And the key foundation players here, who are they?... Rockefeller, Pew, W. Alton Jones. These are the philanthropic subsidiaries of the major US owned oil companies. And they advocate extremely conservative social agendas.

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/courses/geog100/Petrol-Charity.htm

http://www.sfbg.com/News/32/02/Features/energy.html --------------- "80% of greenhouse gases are produced by only 122 corporations, which act as 'carbon pushers' comparable to drug pushers. The... conclusion is obvious: these 122 corporations are jeopardizing the integrity of the entire global ecosystem, endangering the future for all children, and holding the world's people and their governments hostage by a combination of bribery and brute force. A simple question: Why do we allow such antisocial -- even sociopathic -- behavior to go unrewarded by prison sentences for culpable executives and boards of directors?" --Peter Montague, "The Carbon Pushers," Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly #664, 19 August 1999

"There never will be any proven need to respond to global warming, for those defending short-term profits at any cost. ...The perceived seriousness of a threat is largely determined by the extent to which it is a help or a hindrance to goals set by centers of political and economic power." --David Edwards, "Global Warming and the Political Economy of Threats," Z Magazine, February 1997

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/courses/geog100/GlobalWarming.htm

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Did you know?

The Lone Star State has more renewable energy potential than any other state. Wind power alone could generate up to 136,000 megawatts of electricity, more than twice the state's total generating capacity.

A network for extensive monitoring of solar radiation in Texas is being developed by the University of Texas at Austin. [more]

http://www.infinitepower.com/

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Bush Ties Solar Power To Drilling He wants to tap Alaska refuge

Washington -- In a nod to the energy crisis, President Bush's budget provides more than $1 billion for research into solar, wind and other alternative energy sources.

But the allocation comes with a twist. It counts on revenue from exploratory oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge, which Democrats insist they will never let happen.

Though Bush's spending plan released yesterday acknowledges the need for a reliable source of energy, it cuts the Energy Department's budget by 3 percent, to $19 billion

"This is like saying to Bill Gates, 'Bill, you know, if you want to plant rose bushes in your yard, you have to cut down the trees, sell them for firewood and then use the money to buy rose bushes," said Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "Bill Gates doesn't have to do that. We don't have to do that."

"I think it shows what a low priority, or I would say a nonpriority, renewable and solar energy are to him," Boxer said. "It shows that he really doesn't care about this. He is beholden to the oil people."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/03/01/MN161943.DTL

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Energy Efficiency Programs Are Set for Bush Budget Cut

By JOSEPH KAHN

WASHINGTON, April 4 — The Bush administration plans to cut programs intended to make buildings and factories use less energy and to generate more power from the wind and the sun, people who have seen the administration's budget proposal say.

The cuts, being proposed despite the administration's contention that the nation faces an energy crisis, would reduce the Energy Department's overall spending on energy efficiency and renewable energy by about $180 million, or 15 percent, though some people involved in the process said the administration had talked of cuts of up to 30 percent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/politics/05BUDG.html

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Will market forces be the major player to bring an end to global warming?

Market forces are the only forces strong enough to do that. Mere exhortation, regulation or taxation do not often achieve those ends. You need a market system which draws out of the economy the kinds of resources which make it possible to deliver what we need. I do not object to the basic statement that the market is the only force strong enough to do it. A market needs to be not regulated but corrected. Markets, unfortunately, do not always take all the costs into account and sometimes governments have to insist that they do internalise those costs, and thereby get a proper signal from the purchaser. Markets do not always operate in long enough terms, so sometimes the governments, through regulation or through taxation, have got to help them to do so. Markets, or market manipulators, always long for monopoly. That is true of every businessman. So governments have to make sure he does not get his way.

http://www.millennium-debate.org/gummer.htm

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THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT FOR ANOTHER CLIMATE TREATY

The Worldwatch Institute responds to the Washington Post's March 28, 2001 story: "U.S Aims to Pull Out of Kyoto Pact"

Although President Bush has argued that the Kyoto Protocol could damage the economy, not implementing the treaty would actually be more damaging. Outside the U.S., many countries are moving rapidly to pursue a new generation of 21st century energy technologies such as fuel cells, wind turbines, and solar electric generators. The attempt by the Bush administration to return to reliance on coal, a dirty fuel that is a relic of the 19th century, would be a costly economic mistake. In the end, those countries that address climate change earliest will dominate the massive new energy technology markets of the new century-and create millions of jobs in the process.

http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/010328.html

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"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only likewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this luke warmness arising partly form fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favour and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it." - Nicolo Mihcaivelli

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'Flood Bush' email stalls White House server April 3, 4.30pm:

BP and Shell have joined a Friends of the Earth email campaign targeting President Bush.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,468024,00.html

http://www.foeeurope.org/climate/letter.htm

-- The Oil Resident (bye-bye@mother.earth), April 09, 2001

Answers

First off the Guardian is a socialist newspaper.

Second off BP/Shell is heavily into solar panel production.

I'm too bored with this far left-wing crap to do third off etc.

-- Got a parent (Don't@needa.guardian), April 09, 2001.

Typical Socialist bullshit.

Bush is gonna destroy the planet....

Bush is gonna starve children....

Bush is gonna kill old people....

Bush is gonna freeze us to death....

Bush is gonna deprive people of medicine...

Bush is gonna rob the poor to give to his rich friends...

Whaaaa waaaaaaa waaaaaa!!!!

We've heard all this fucking bullshit before, it's the same old political warfare bullshit comming from the communists and socialists pretending to be compassionate and concerned liberal democrats and such.

Remember?

Newt Gingrich is gonna starve the children....

Newt's Contract on America is gonna kill old people.....

Same fucking bullshit over and over. these assholes just hate America and what it used to be. They want this nation converted to a fascist- run democracy and everyone made by force to be an equal serf except for themselves and their elite comrades. They want the gummint to do everything for them and make everyone the same so no one is jealous of anyone else's silver spoon. They do this shit by using compassion, clean air, water and fairness as disguise to cover themselves so we cant see what they really are.

When you see and hear all this socialist bullshit, just recognize that your dealing with the red chinese or the soviets in all practicality. Same diffrence.

Some of us aint giving into you assholes without a fight shithead. We're done accomodating you commies. Your enemies of liberty and our constitution.

-- Truthbenown (Upees@shit.com), April 09, 2001.

Wow, great set of links there Resident. I've never seen such a fascist regime in power in America before, never seen such a totalitarian approach to dictating... er, "governing."

Sure is damn scary. Lots of GOPers are upset about this too. It's so transparent that he's just in the pocket of oil and coal.

Bush is waging war on us, folks. We can either let these fascists in power win, or fight back!

-- Fight the Right (fight@right.com), April 09, 2001.

Yeah, but how many interns has he bagged in the Oval Office? That's what we really want to know.

-- (ThatsAll@That.Matters), April 09, 2001.

Hey fight the right...

Bring it on!

We are ready and waiting.

Id rather have an executive in the back pocket of oil, coal and gas than a president in the back pocket of the Communist chinese and the global socialists of europe.

Your loyalties are all fucked up. So be it, im gonna use your blue helmets for flower pots.

-- Truthbenown (Upees@shit.com), April 09, 2001.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, and all of that left wing crap. You losers need to shut the fuck up and get a job. Better yet, get the hell out of OUR country and take Alex and Barbara with you.

-- A (true@American.Patriot), April 09, 2001.

Hey, true ame'can patrot, etcetera... Do you realize how much of a piece of shit you are? Do you realize that you make each and every one of us who actually have relatives in the armed forces wretch? Do you know you are a complete embarrassment?

Take you little militia mindset and blow it through your cerebral cortex with your black-powder-hillbilly-bumfuck- dixie-singin-cousin-lovin rifle.

-- hickboy (dueling@banjos.com), April 09, 2001.

I think economic downturns make hicks come out of the closet:

Gub'mit bad!!! I jus woke uuup, an' eb'n Ahh knowsit!!! Sheeeeiit, eb'n tho I got crabs and my wom'n drinks like a skunk on sunday, if'n she get's an abor-tio-on, I goddamn kill 'er!!! The Loorrrd JESUS saves my sorry ass an' I WILL PRAY that he helps me an' mine kill any others that don' see the light.

-- Jesus (martinez@mexico.gov), April 09, 2001.

hickboy et al; - you piece of Leftist dogshit....do you realize that you make each and every one of us folks that have served in the military, or are currently serving in our decimated ranks, puke with disgust every time we see your socialist pap? Do you know that your puke socialism disguised as liberal compassion is a complete embarrasment and afront to the constitution?

You can take your stupid commie red ass lovin, urban city dwellin, self indulgent wanking, pompous arrogant pushing and Stalin kissing ass back to Red fucking China you dickless little shit.

I'll take a bunch of good ol boys over you limp wristed urban dictating twits any day of the week. Most of us did our military time protecting your skinny and ingrateful asses, watching you sorry fucks protest us to protect your socialist buddies. Your peon shit boy, and not even worthy enough to be the shitpaper I wipe my ass with.

Us boys was born with rifles in our hands. We can pick off the freckles on your ass at a thousand - be it with a .22 hornet or an FAL .308 semi. You fairy shits dont have the balls to stand up for yourselfs - thats why you useless eaters run to big momma goverment to protect and solve yer problems. The militia mindsets the only thing keeping the constitution from being completely discarded and done away by the fuckers running the show hoss - we keeps it that way so you stupid fuckers can spout yer stupid socialist bullshit without the fear of goin to the gulag for speaking out against the regime, fuckhead.

But since you leftist assholes think you are somehow annointed to tell us simple hicks to suck your dicks and bend over and take your screwjobs - us hicks coming out of the woodwork are seeing red in you panty waist socialists and we are done taking your bullshit - so fuck you peon boy and all your urban-suburban socialist wannabes. I just assume take you out to the woodshed and bust your pinko commie ass like a toothpick and settle it like a man, lessun you wanna make more of it than you ought, in which case I hope you had better training than those of us thatve been sniping squirrels from treelimbs since we was four.

You lose.... to quote a great line.

-- Truthbenown (Upees@shit.com), April 10, 2001.

Truthbenown,

Newt Gingrich was a dangerous dumbfuck and a lying hypocrite to boot.

OOOhhhhhhhhhh, I get it now! That's why you like him so much you are soulmates. Nevermind, my mistake. Keep on frothing my boy.

-- Jack Booted Thug (governmentconspiracy@NWO.com), April 10, 2001.

Lets see, Gingrich was a dangerous dumbfuck...

Why? Because he threatened to take away all your bloated and inneficient payola programs? because he tried to put a stop to the hijacking of the constitution by the Left? get a fucking clue loser! I got chinese nukes with Americas latest MIRV and guidance technology pointed at me and my family thanks to your pal and socialist soulmate Bill Klintoon who GAVE them to the communist chinese for blood money dipshit!

As to lying hypocrite, I don't think you need to look farther than all the shits in the DNC for examples of that. I dont recall Gingrich lying to a grand jury under oath causing himn to lose his law license. And if you want hypocrisy ...then compare Klintoon's promise of "the most ethical Administration in history" to his scandalous record as the slimiest, dirtiest and most corrupt leader this nation ever had pales your futile dredging of Gingrich. From fucking Lewinski in the oval office with a cigar to bombing aspirin factories in the Sudan and using NATO to blow the shit out of our former allies in Serbia. I'd say your seig heils to Klintoons comrades makes your stupid arguments...well, stupid and typical of you unthinking socialists.

-- Truthbenown (Upees@shit.com), April 10, 2001.