Hard to know where to start on this one, there are so many candidates for the STUPIDEST. For our American cousins, I suppose the attempt to push through the stalled energy bill including drilling in the Arctic refuge as a "solution" (there is something buried deep in the bill about reliable transmission lines) to electricity woes would be in the running.

Here in Ontario, home of systematic stupidity, a spanking new candidate has emerged. Yesterday the government cancelled plans to have an energy conservation officer for the province (hours after the Premier was on TV extolling the virtues of conservation). This lasted about 4 hours, until they realized it was really, really, stupid. One of those interviewed for the job said that during her interview the interviewer said that the province didn't really want conservation because then they would never be able to pay off the old debt of the parent company!!!!

A Classic. Any more out there?

yours,

Peter T.