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To: riored

Not by me.

FWIW, and to be completely above-board and fair to the Bush administration, the diesel fuel emissions standards were pretty much already set in place and the plan was in the works at the end of the Clinton administration. The Bush administration did nothing to modify or halt the issue, because the GOP are a bunch of cowards when taking on the environmentalists.

I never lose an argument with environmentalists when I can show the audience the numbers. It becomes a case of a retired engineer (with a bunch of numbers and charts) vs. a liberal arts major making some impassioned plea and appeals to emotion.

It is about as challenging as shooting fish in a 5-gal bucket with a shotgun.

Sadly, the GOP and all these “think tanks” in DC prefer to have our environmental and energy policy pieces written by political science, legal and policy wonks, rather than people who can do real analysis based on the real numbers. The stuff coming out of the Heritage, CATO, and other outfits on energy, environment and ag are just absurd nonsense at times. You can tell within the first paragraph that most of these “analysts” wouldn’t know a cow pie if you splattered one in their faces.


60 posted on 12/11/2007 9:12:14 AM PST by NVDave
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To: NVDave

to post 60.

Bush (apparently) did nothing to stop
Clinton’s decision.
Something similair happen to gasoline laws.

keep in mind that the oil industry
loves these problems.

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btw, this matter is one of my biggest beefs with Bush.


63 posted on 12/11/2007 9:19:44 AM PST by riored
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