What do Bush and the House Republicans have against Alternative Energy?
House shifts billion toward renewable energy!
Republicans called it a "no-energy bill" because it lacks new drilling incentives, and they derided the new emphasis on renewables as "green pork." The White House threatened to veto the bill on concerns that it could boost energy prices.
Didn’t Bush say that the USA is addicted to oil and needs to find alternate energy sources? Or was he just refering to ethanol?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070805/pl_nm/usa_energy_house_dc_3
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February 17th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Roughly three years ago in a televised State of the Union Address, Bush dropped a hint on what a portion of the Republican plan for alternative energy might be.
He mentioned pulling in the big oil companies to explore the development of hydrogen based fuels as a possible alternative to fossil fuels.
So, after the oil companies have spent decades with that giant money-sucking vacuum … sucking the dollars out of the pockets of the American consumer, you might think the power and influence of big oil is now diminishing … diminishing due to waning fossil fuels and the growing green movement.
What exactly is it that the Republicans love to say when justifying a rationale for supporting corporate interests while actively fighting American workers who are negatively impacted by those interests?
"Let the Free Market Decide"
In this scenario, the free market would have decided the days of big oil, had come and gone … the strangle hold of big oil on all of us had run it’s course and the corrupt, self-serving oil and gas industry was now dying.
But there’s the problem … the oil and gas industry is a prime Republican contributor. In addition, the ruling elite is heavily invested in oil and gas.
So … enter the Republicans with their little energy plan, big oil is potentially crowned "Lords of the Hydrogen" … so they can rape us all over again.
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