Cheney Screwed Us

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Saturday July 19, 2008 · 12:59 PM PDT

2008/07/19 · 12:59

A congressional investigation has produced new details on the degree to which senior Bush administration officials favored using the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions — until pressure from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, ExxonMobil and others in the oil industry led the Bush administration to change course.

A report by the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, issued today, supports the disclosure by a former Environmental Protection Agency official last week that someone in Cheney's office had a hand in the shift in policy.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/...

Committee Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) said in a news release: "This is the dysfunctions and motivations of the Bush administration laid bare. The fact that they can, with near unanimity, completely switch positions on global warming to please the oil industry is shocking, and yet disappointingly predictable."

Eventually the country will realize that many of the actions taken by the Bush administration were directly related to benefiting the major oil companies, such as Exxon/Mobil. We don't, at this point, know how far or intrusive the meddling by Cheney and the Bush administration goes, but consider these questions.... was the war in Iraq started to enable oil companies and government contractors to benefit from the exploitation of the Iraq oil!? Is the political wrangling with Iran aimed at increasing the price of oil.... for the benefit of our major oil companies? The recent lift of the ban for oil exploitation by Bush, on the U.S. coast certainly benefits the oil companies, especially given that they already own or lease millions of unexplored acres of land, both on-shore and off-shore. Everything that the Bush administration has done has played into the hands of the oil industry. Here's the ultimate question: how much of this was a coincidence and how much of this was deliberate?

I would hope the Congress, after the election of Obama and a larger democratic majority will spare no resources in investigating this, for the sake of the protection of the basic principles of government and to preserve the integrity of our constitution.

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