Posted on 12/23/2004 7:51:09 AM PST by Rakkasan1
Earlier this month, in a speech that got less attention than it deserved, Bill Clinton gave a plain accounting of the swamp this nation is in for lack of a progressive policy -- or any real policy -- on how we produce, consume and conserve energy.
U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases keep rising, warming the atmosphere and isolating us from a world community working concertedly to reverse this march toward catastrophe. U.S. oil imports are 50 percent higher than they were in the late 1980s, binding us politically to unstable or unsavory governments in the Middle East, and tying our economy to volatile prices in markets manipulated against our interests. Though the way out of this bind is clear -- a national commitment to rapidly develop domestic energy from clean, renewable sources -- progress has gone from slow to slower.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
Just mentioning it here is more attention than it deserves.
Oh yeah, can't forget, we're DOOMED!
Rats. i was hoping it was "Starr getting nostalgic for Slick Willy" and we were going to here from Ken Starr.
How many people think Ken Starr would be an awesome Supreme Court justice?
Yeah, I heard Minnesota was experiencing near record lows earlier this week. Must be that 'ol global warming again. The Star & Sickle have as good of timing as Algore.
Hilarious stuff!
it was -9 when I left work last night.
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