Posted on 04/22/2009 5:13:36 PM PDT by GOPGuide
Cheney’s stock has never been higher than it is right now at our home. Give them hell Dick!
“Rolling blackouts in California dominated the front pages back then, and there was a keen sense that our electricity grid was about to fail us. Cheney did put together a task force—a rather secretive task force—and he made a number of recommendations, which focused on domestic oil and gas exploration and a proposed expansion of nuclear power. But after 9/11, the plan faded into the background. It didn’t fade away because we solved the energy crisis. If anything, the situation is worse now than it was then. So why exactly did Cheney drop the ball?”
He didnt. The energy proposals died in the Daschle-led Senate, and it took until 2005 to overcome the political roadblocks. Along the way the proposals got larded up and dumbed down to become the Energy bill of 2005. The best thing in that bill was policy changes to get nuclear energy moving again in USA.
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