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...creeping fear of unaffordable power has President George W. Bush looking for a backup policy generator as he prepares to unveil an energy program this week that is very fossil-fuel friendly--and simpatico with his and Vice President Dick Cheney's long ties to Big Oil. Bush says his policy, which stresses greater production over conservation, is a long-term solution...
...with the global warming threat - may look like the lesser of two evils. Renewable energy, which now composes an eye-popping 2% of the nation's energy grid, needs a heck of a lot more than federal research dollars if it is ever to become a national alternative to fossil fuel energy...
...Energy (particularly Enron, who under Bush buddy Lay invested $1.3 million in Bush's presidential run and $461,000 in his gubernatorial efforts) got him that far. Cheney has looked around at the U.S. energy scene and decided that America's energy workhorses of the past two decades - fossil fuels, and if you want cleaner air, nuclear plants - have been recently over-burdened with regulation, and need to be unleashed...
...Reduces dependence on foreign oil. Natural gas is cleanest fossil fuel...
...NATURAL GAS The cleanest fossil fuel, natural gas, has risen in use dramatically in the past decade. If Bush reversed himself and imposed limits on CO2 emissions, gas would be even more attractive to utilities that will need to comply