Energy insanity-republican framing...

http://www.energybulletin.net/4980.html

Ponder this: Next year, the administration will phase out the $2,000 tax credit for buying a hybrid vehicle, which gets over 50 miles per gallon, but will leave in place the $25,000 tax write-off for a Hummer, which gets 10-12 mpg. That's truly crazy, and that's truly what the whole Cheney energy policy is.

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Now, here's the Catch-22 we get with this administration: It is using the exact language of the bill's critics -- stealing it wholesale and using it to promote its bill. It's our friend Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster who specializes in "framing" issues (framing means the same thing as spinning, and in the non-political world it is known as lying), at work again. Luntz put out a memo in January: "Eight Energy Communication Guidelines for 2005" telling R's how to talk about energy using language people like.

The Natural Resources Defense Council found a Bush speech on energy on March 9 in Ohio that parrots Luntz's suggestions to a laughable point -- threat to national security, diversity of supply, innovation, conservation and (my fave) Point 4, "The key principle is 'responsible energy exploration.' And remember, it's NOT drilling for oil. It's responsible energy exploration."

They are pushing all the wrong buttons. Luntz probably labled the buttons.

he sounded like he has changed his policy-!!

I know how they think. I used to work for one.

Their only frustration at this point is the fact the U.S. military, funded to the tune of $450 billion a year and rising, has not efficiently pacified the natives in the way of the oilfields of the Persian Gulf, where two-thirds of remaining reserves are found, in many cases bubbling up out of the ground just like in the opening scene of the "Beverly Hillbillies" when Jed is "shootin' at some food."

They literally cannot imagine a non-petroleum-based world order. It hurts their head to think about what that would mean to them and their Saudi brothers-in-exploitation.