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...Bush administration has the answer in a regime that will build character, strengthen the adolescent back and help America climb out of its crippling energy crisis. As the Vice President pointed out in his 170 page report of the National Energy Policy Development Group, America's appetite for coal, oil and nuclear power will require production of a new power plant each week for the next 20 years. That means we need to get going. Now, that's a lot of pipes that need welding. So the question you've got to be asking yourselves...
...plan called for the construction of 1,300 power plants in the next 20 years - about one a week is the catchy statistic - but it also envisions 90 percent of those plants will be natural-gas-fired, the cleanest mainstream power source around. Yes, the Administration is more coal-fired-up than even the mildest environmentalist, but the only money the White House wants to actually spend on coal is $2 billion to make it burn cleaner. And yes, Dick Cheney isn't afraid of nukes. But Republican pollsters are telling Bush the public isn't either...
...grid, for better distributing the power that gets made. It'll be a tooth-and-nail fight with the kind of property-rights stalwarts that are a traditional Republican constituency, but it ought to get done, if only because a power line doesn't care what kind of power - coal, solar, wind, nuclear - it transmits...
...Amoco, the second-largest oil company in the U.S., is the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels. Wind farms are starting to sprout up - there's even one in Texas. Despite all of Bush and Cheney's much-criticized permissiveness when it comes to toxic power like coal and nukes, the long-term future they've laid out is cleaner than the one we've got: goosing, through reduced regulation, the natural-gas slice of the energy pie - it's now 15 percent - and letting the market for energy do the rest...
...drive off into the wide open spaces. Mass transit is for pointy-headed Easterners, and every room should be as cool as a meat locker. Don't have enough energy? Drill for it like a crazed dentist. If that doesn't do the trick, let's blast for coal and rebuild Three Mile Island. These are people from out West, where there's land, lots of land under sunny skies above, and no one will be fenced in by $3-a-gal. gas. You may recognize the type. They're in charge...