Follow-up - Too Bad to Be True

Last week, I had posted a brief summary of an article about Bush - Basically, I summarized the print article - people often do not believe the horrors our Mis-administration has perpetrated because it is the "too bad to be true" syndrome – all the raping of the environment Bush has allowed cannot really be true because most Americans cannot conceive that anybody would have such callous disregard for our planet.

here is the article:

At an Earth Day event last week in Cheshire, (Connecticut) Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was asked if he could remember a time when the federal government was as hostile as it is now to the states. His short answer was "no," though he admitted he could spend two hours explaining why. He summed up the Bush administration's environmental policy as: "Northeast, drop dead."

Connecticut, Massachusetts and other Northeastern states are currently suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force it to obey the federal law.

http://hartfordadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:63863

snip> Even so, I'm beginning to wonder if Americans really care about the environment. Or anything but their own lifestyles. Never has the case for a national energy policy that would aggressively seek alternative fuel sources and forbid the manufacture of inefficient SUVs and Hummers been more compelling. Yet, never has the sale of these vehicles been as high, never have American lifestyles been more wasteful. <snip ibid

I traded in my V-8 SUV for a V-6 with the same hauling capacity to help as it doubled my MPG (but I gave up a lot of performance). While I will admit I thought I'd save some money too (but with the new gas prices, I just broke even) I have also tried having a "economy" car around to drive when I don't have to haul, but it died and can't afford to buy another one.

I think people are getting more into the environmental aspects of driving big rigs, but if that doesn't do it, the gas prices will real soon!

Wehave very few factories to speak of here, but pollution drift makes our pristine coastal air hostile to breathe.

I am incensed at the softening of pollution laws.

How many dead asthmatic children are acceptable in the name of big business, Shrub? A few hundred a year? If you could save a few hundred little lives a year, would you? Probably not, if it means that the coal-burning plants have to install costly smoke scrubbers.

Perish the thought! Asthmatic children don't vote or fill your war chest...

.... said he refers to environmentalists as "green, green lima beans."