Goodbye To All That, Hello Redemption
Posted by Sonja Ebron
Negativity is not my style, but I wish I had a pair of shoes to throw at George Bush as he leaves office. Think that’s too harsh? It’s not nearly harsh enough. We had a half-decent shot at avoiding this energy crisis when Bush stole the 2000 election. His administration was steeped in the energy industry, and his top advisers knew the painful forecasts for global oil depletion long before they took power. The Bush administration should have formed a rational plan to lower our energy consumption. They should have formed a global protocol for fairly allocating the remaining recoverable oil supplies. Instead, they came to Washington with Iraq in their sights and a delusional plan to steal its oil. With 4,000 Americans dead, one million dead Iraqis, a global financial system in tatters and an energy system in meltdown, it’s hard to imagine they could leave the country in worse straits. Luckily, we don’t have to find out.
