Environmentally correct Bush

The American people haven't seemed all that concerned for the environment in the past 3 decades and presidents have not been crusaders for the environment either. Currently, we're back to the days of James Watt prospecting for resouces in national parks and other pristine wilderness because our current insatiable need for fuel outweighs the need to preserve anything for posterity. In light of more drilling, less fuel efficiency legislation and spending cuts on alternative fuel research I find it rather curious that the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas is amazingly ecofriendly. I get the feeling that Laura Bush was behind this and wonder what she thinks of George cutting the budget for libraries by $38 million or so just as she kicked off a national campaign for "America's Libraries".

permalink Ω 26 February 2002, Helsinki