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Originally Posted by djtestudo
Wait a minute.
One of the criticisms of the Bush Administration is that many involved are also involved (or have been in the past) with oil and energy companies.
Now, there is a point to which there is a criticism to be made (mostly about who is setting the energy policy, right or wrong), but why is it OK to criticize one major political figure for having a monetary interest in a certain area, but to brush aside the same issue from another?
Is it because you simply disagree with one while agreeing with the other?
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Well, i don't think that there were any reasonable criticisms of bush based merely on the fact that he was involved in the energy industry. I think the complaints were more concerned with which parts of the energy industry he was involved with. The complaints i had, and mostly still have, were more based on his seeming commitment to helping line the pockets of oil company shareholders whilst ignoring the emerging importance of energy efficiency and alternative energy in the contexts of economic and military safety and security.
Clearly, the world is going to need to change directions in terms of energy consumption and production. Oil will be part of the answer, but the fact that the bush admin focused on it almost exclusively for a considerable period of time (even using money set aside specifically for renewable energy projects to print out little booklets detailing his oil rich energy policy), is just another example of the bush administration's keen ability to squander opportunity wherever it may present itself.