What Ever Happened to Conservation?

[davidbcoe]

Did anyone else hear Dubya's comments today on his "new energy initiatives"?  Did anyone notice that he didn't say a single word -- not one! -- about conservation?  Does anyone else find this deeply disturbing?  We could drill every inch of land and coastline in the United States and it wouldn't change the fact that there is a finite amount of oil

Comments

[davidbcoe]

Every award until January? Hmmmm. I don't know. Not that he won't earn them, but I've got to keep myself amused, not to mention my readers.

Thanks for the commment, Tiffany.

[gauroth]

WORD

[davidbcoe]

Actually, I've read that the oil we can save with tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and other conservation steps would dwarf any oil that can be found by drilling. That said, you're right: to meet all our energy needs and save the planet, we need other sources. Environmentalists (myself included) are going to have to find a way to avoid our knee-jerk reactions to hydroelectric dams and nuclear power plants, and instead try to be part of the search for solutions. Perhaps working with industry, tree-huggers like me can come up with a way to make these forms of energy work.

[ogre_san]

The man's been clueless for the last 7.5 years. I don't expect him to start making sense now.

[davidbcoe]

Well, yeah. You've got that right. Although in this case I don't think it's a matter of him being clueless. His priorities are just totally screwed up.

[jp_davis]

Con-serve? That's un-American! You must have meant con-sume! That's how we do it over here! Don't forget, everyone, market forces are the answer to every problem.

[davidbcoe]

Sad, but true. We could be leading the world in this. We could be the answer to saving the planet. And instead we're pushing the earth toward its destruction. Tragic.

[kmarkhoover]

Hell, even Richard Nixon believed in conservation. Nixon, that walking definition of paranoia. Nixon. Yeah, Nixon.

That says a lot as to how far off the reservation from their basic tenets the Repubs have strayed. T.R. Roosevelt would never be accepted in today's Repub Party. And Lincoln? Don't make me effing laugh. Lincoln would never even be a player in today's march toward GOPocalypse.

"Whaddya mean we gotta do somepin' for the slaves? Yah guddum libberul, wherez yur flag pin...?"

[davidbcoe]

You're right, Mark. When people like us start harkening back to the good old days of the Nixon Administration you know that something is seriously wrong with this country.