Question Earthority!

“Last week Bush proposed something environmentalists, energy analysts, greenhouse-effect researchers, and national-security experts have spent 20 years pleading for: a major strengthening of federal mileage standards for cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks. The No. 1 failing of U.S. energy policy is that vehicle mile-per-gallon standards have not been made stricter in two decades. Nothing the United States can do in energy policy is more important than an mpg increase.” [editor’s note: Actually, nothing could be more of a meaningless band-aid. Using fossil fuel more efficiently isn’t the answer to energy dependence or pollution/climate change issues. Converting to NON-fossil fuels is. Unfortunately, the latter is less amenable to big government than the former, and some people are more interested in big government than they are in solutions - TLK] (01/31/07)