Bush's carbon plan isnt "anything to rely on"
Feeling the pressure from a recent Supreme Court ruling Bush declared on monday that his administrations will decide how to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from motor vehicles by the time he leaves office. The intricate "plan" does little more than order the departments of Transportation, Agriculture and Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency to create regulations that will cut gasoline consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, effective by the end of 2008. Thats a whole three weeks that the president will have to deal with this. "It appears that the president wants to run out the clock to the end of his term without addressing our energy needs," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Environmental groups are declaring that this plan lacks any real commitment of administration to take action. There has been nothing promised and the kicker is if there is no serious health risks found in the next couple of months, which there wasnt when the EPA studied this same thing in 2003, then there will be no regulations implemented at all.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. and chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, agreed that Bush's order was short of details. "The absence of any standards in (the) announcement is a reason why Americans will be looking to Congress for stronger leadership on energy policy," he said.
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