Top Ten Ways Bush Screws The Earth

[DrFunkenstein]

Here is a list that answers the age-old question: How many ways can Bush kiss the collective ass of corporate polluters while screwing the environment? Let us count the ways. George W. Bush...

1. Builds new roadblocks to improving fuel economy in automobiles. Reducing the transportation sector’s reliance on oil is clearly the key to improving our nation's energy security, yet Bush’s energy plan adds new requirements to the fuel efficiency standard setting process.

2. Does not decrease American dependence on foreign oil. Bush’s energy plan even strips out an agreement supported by Democrats and Republicans to reduce oil consumption by at least one million barrels per day by 2013.

3. Does not include accountability for developing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Bush’s energy plan provides billions of research dollars for hydrogen with no accountability for actually developing a fuel cell vehicle or achieving oil savings or pollution reductions.

4. Delays new protections from mercury pollution. Bush’s energy plan delays a new EPA rule that will set mercury thresholds for coal and oil-fired power plants putting public health for children and adults at further risk.

5. Lets polluters off the hook. Bush’s energy plan gives polluters a free pass for contaminating groundwater with MTBE and other fuel additives. This would mean that states and thousands of communities around the country will have no legal means of holding MTBE manufacturers responsible for the massive water pollution they have caused.

6. Rolls back clean air protections. Bush’s energy plan will waive anti-smog requirements in polluted cities that missed clean air requirements.

7. Exempts big oil from the Clean Water Act. Bush’s energy plan includes an exemption of oil and gas exploration and production activities from the Clean Water Act putting our drinking water supplies at risk.

8. Supports dirty energy sources, not renewables. Bush’s energy plan supports more than twice as many direct subsidies for dirty energy sources such as coal, oil and gas, and nuclear as for clean renewable energy such as wind, solar and geothermal.

9. No incentives to purchase fuel efficient vehicles. Bush’s energy plan fails to provide adequate tax breaks to help consumers buy fuel efficient vehicles.

10. Opens up sensitive lands to drilling by waiving environmental regulations. Bush wants to speed up energy exploration and development at the expense of environmental review and public participation putting our health of our environment at risk.

http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2003_1112d.html

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[wtmusic]

1. Don't forget

his rejection of the Kyoto protocol to fight global warming. In the top five on my list.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. And my #1...

Allows industry to write the very environmental laws that govern them.

[wtmusic]

3. What selection! What value!

:puke:

[DrFunkenstein]

4. This Could Be Top 25 Easy

I second your opinion:

:puke:
:puke:

[dusty64]

5. His new assault on the

Endangered Species Act is another and the list goes on and on. If they are allowed to steal their way into the WH for another term this planet is truly fuc#ed!

[BeFree]

6. Kerry. huh?

Wow, is he some kinda rabid enviro, or what?

Unfortunately, when the Sheeple see this kind of green, they run away from it! And head for the feed troughs full of sugared manure; courtesy of Faux news, et al..

Better that the Sheeple ingest this kind of green and allow it to enrich their lives. 'Course the shepherds wouldn't like that.

There will come a day when the Sheeple wished they had eaten in that green pasture.