Arianna: Paying The Price For Bush’s Retro Energy Policy

Good article by Arianna Huffington sums it all up nicely

Paying The Price For Bush’s Retro Energy Policy
March 23, 2005

The new sales pitch for President Bush is that he’s a forward-thinking visionary, right? His policies in the Middle East were, it turns out, not about the bloody debacle in Iraq today but about democracy spreading throughout the region in a glorious future. And his plan to fix Social Security is not at all about privatizing the jewel of the New Deal but simply about ensuring a safe and secure system well past 2052.

But when it comes to dealing with the many energy-related crises we’re facing, can the Bushies really go on pretending that their policies are any more forward-looking than a rerun of “That ’70s Show”?

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