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...That's a possibility, and certainly he's talking up the work he's already done. He's telling the business community, essentially, to lay off the layoffs - things will pick back up soon enough. And to consumers, he's saying keep those spirits up - 4.5 percent unemployment still isn't that high, he's on the job, and the turnaround is coming...
...This environment, spread over four floors, each the size of a city block, will become home this August to 2,000 employees trading commodities that range from Old World (crude oil, petrochemicals, steel and lumber) to New World (emission credits and derivatives). Chairman Kenneth Lay and CEO Jeff Skilling are even moving from their skyboxes to work in seventh-floor offices so they can peer down into...
...marketing of the energy plan. The trouble started in Toronto at the end of April, when Vice President Dick Cheney, whose task force drew up the plan, delivered a speech in which he seemed to mock conservation as a means of dealing with energy shortages. The attempt was to lay out the dire reality; the effect was to just sound dour. One sentence in particular - "conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy" - led to a wave of bad press and gave the administration's critics fresh...
...decades and a few heart attacks later, George W. Bush tapped Cheney to be the architect of his long-term energy policy, and after months of closed-door pondering with his task force and consultations with energy-industry lobbyists (including a luxurious half-hour chat with Kenneth Lay, CEO of Enron), the Hillary Clinton of energy emerged with 105 suggestions stretching over 170 pages...
...From tried-and-true sources, both politically and industrially. Big Coal won Bush-Cheney West Virginia and the November election; Big Oil and Big 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...