Cheney's own fund manager on oil policy "What were we thinking?"

[walldude]

Not that this will make any kind of difference, but even Cheney's money handler thinks we jumped the shark.

http://articles.news.aol.com/business/_a/cheneys-fund-manager-attacks--cheney/20070205135409990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001

The oil-based energy policies usually associated with Vice President Dick Cheney have just come under scathing attack. There's nothing remarkable about that, of course -- except the person doing the attacking. Step forward, Jeremy Grantham -- Cheney's own investment manager. "What were we thinking?' Grantham demands in a four-page assault on U.S. energy policy mailed last week to all his clients, including the vice president.
(snip)
"Successive U.S. administrations have taken little interest in either oil substitution or climate change," he writes, "and the current one has even seemed to have a vested interest in the idea that the science of climate change is uncertain."

Yet "there is now nearly universal scientific agreement that fossil fuel use is causing a rise in global temperatures," he writes. "The U.S. is the only country in which environmental data is steadily attacked in a well-funded campaign of disinformation (funded mainly by one large oil company)."
That's Exxon Mobil.
As for Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Richard Lindzen, who appears everywhere to question global warming, Grantham mocks him as "the solitary plausible academic can dig up, out of hundreds working in the field."....

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It's getting to the point where anyone with any intelligence at all is backing away from this failed administration and it's disgusting policies of greed. One has to wonder when the Dems are going to join in.

[maxsolomon]

1. minor correction

the * knows that climate change is real. they have a vested interest in denying it.


his master's voice.

[KansDem]

4. I've heard the the 90,000 acres the Bush Family bought in Paraguay will make them the Saudis of H20

The land sits on (one of) the largest freshwater aquifers in South America. Makes me wonder if the Bush Family knows that climate change is real, but is shrugging it off publicly while preparing for it privately.

Australia is having a huge problem with a drought due to global warming. Perhaps the Bush Family will be able to "help" them by offering drinking water.

edited for spelling

[jobycom]

2. Good article, but you should edit out the attack on Dems at the end.

It's counterproductive. Let the article stand as a condemnation of Republican policy, don't give the Republicans the squirm option to say "Well, the Dems are just as guilty as us, so you might as well vote for us." That's the reason their smear campaigns work--we shouldn't be helping them.

Thanks for the post. Good article.

[walldude]

3. Um.. that was me attacking the dems, not the article..

and I don't plan on stopping my attacks on them until they get off their asses and do something. I can count on one hand the Dems I'm happy with right now.

[jobycom]

5. I understood who wrote it. That was my point. nt

[maxsolomon]

6. i'm with walldude

the pressure must not stop. the dems are not doing enough.

after all, its the only congress we've got.

[jobycom]

8. It is the only Congress we've got

And if we continue to bash it before it even has a chance to do anything, then we will lose it, too.

Pressure is one thing. Repeating Republican talking points is another.

[maxsolomon]

9. i am not convinced we haven't already lost it

if we ever had it. when the corporate powers behind our representatives say the wars' over, then it ends.

not when some middle class anarchist (that's me) in seattle, or a bunch of us, yells at patty murray & maria cantwell.

[nam78_two]

7. K&R.nt