What great leadership. We stand on the edge of a petroleum crisis, and the solution from the executive branch is -- unsuprisingly -- reduce the limitations on building refineries (i.e. make the world safe for pollution), and... uh... asking the citizens to "conserve". No increase in our incentives to look for or exploit alternative fuel sources, just the same old protect-the-petroleum-economy strategy. I'm no energy-policy genius, but that doesn't seem to address the real issue: our dangerous petroleum dependence.
Grr.
I guess the saddest part about this whole thing is that this too-little measure represents a big reversal -- conservation was explicitly rejected from our prior energy policy as an "American way of life issue".
I try to avoid politics in this space, but sometimes I fail. Sorry about that.
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