Bartholomew... GWB is already going after the environment, just currently only in speeches.

His response to the California electricity debacle is that it is the result of bad law and that the voters need to deal with it (no argument there, he's right). However, the continuation is that according to his lights, the environmental regulations that have helped to rid LA of much of its smog problem need to be relaxed or removed to allow all plants to run at 100%, and that the Alaskan reserves need to be opened ASAP for exploratory drilling.

Oh well. I think that the greatest concern is that he's not even putting his own spin on the issues... from what I've heard in his speeches, they're direct feeds from the RRight and corporate interests.

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