and from day one - he could have tackled the blended fuel requirements. how many do we have in this country now? we need perhaps 4 blends.
Yes, he should have, but you and I both know the power of the environmental lobby. In the past forty years it has acquired a quasi-religious following who, in their way, are as crazed as Bin Laden and his crew. They think that, somehow, the world can be turned into a garden and that atomic energy is a snake in the grass.
I do believe the energy bill was stalled because the House and Senate wanted to know who was behind Cheney's recommendations and the Energy Report which ended up going to the Supreme Court. Don't remember if the Supreme Court took the case or not but it did waste a lot of time. That's how I remember it I may be wrong.