White House Refused To Open Unwelcome EPA E-Mail

epfreed writes "The White House lost a case in the Supreme Court about the need for the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. So the EPA made new rule. And now the NYTimes reports that the White House did not want to get these new rules from the EPA about greenhouse gases. So they did not open the email."

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Monkey See

[CrashNBrn]

Monkey see no evil, hear no evil, do no evil? ... Monkey see no evil, hear no evil, do evil anyways?

Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know

[Anonymous Coward]

OK Liberals, pay attention, this is the last time we're gonna repeat it. HE WAS IMPEACHED FOR LYING ABOUT HAVING SEX, not for the act itself. Got it?!

Re:The WH's boss is still we the people you know

[prisoner-of-enigma]

McCain will use it of course as a "too many people do not know this, and am going to 'play that card'", but it should be seen as nothing more than a boon for the oil companies, and a whole bunch of 1%, in 10 years (up to 15, depending on the difficulty of permit granting and construction location). Gosh, you're so right. I mean, if we'd only done ten years ago what McCain is proposing we do now then perhaps the current crisis wouldn't be as bad as it is. The problem is, folks like you say "this won't do anything to fix the problem right now, so let's not do it," conveniently forgetting that now eventually leads to later.

The U.S. Dept. of Energy estimates the U.S. has roughly 21 billion barrels of oil in proven reserves (source: http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.html). These data are current as of 2006. It's very likely this is a conservative estimate, as higher oil prices make otherwise-unprofitable reserves profitable to extract. Yet we're only producing 5 million barrels a day and completely unable to measurably increase production with existing fields. Why do you think that is? Here's a hint: environmentalists have made damn sure this country can't open a well or refinery without months -- sometimes years -- of red tape and lawsuits. Now we're reaping the "benefits" of such actions and folks are pissed gas costs what it does. Nuclear and clean coal are in similar doldrums for similar reasons.

It's called cause and effect. Look it up.