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By Thomas Oliphant | Sunday, December 23, 2007 | The Boston Globe

“…Congress’s embattled leaders showed up with an equally embattled President Bush at a signing ceremony for legislation that breaks a generation-long stalemate over fuel efficiency even as it kowtows to Big Coal and Corporate Electricity. And neither Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, nor John Edwards yielded to the temptation to condemn the judgment of Congress.

For the Republicans, there were three revealing symbols. Dick Cheney, the architect in 2001 and cheerleader thereafter for Bush’s failed policy of promoting more fossil fuel production, was missing. Bush himself said not a word about his fanatical pursuit for nearly seven years of more carbon to burn. And John McCain, still part-maverick and still alive in New Hampshire, stood with his latest endorser, occasional Democrat Joe Lieberman; there is more to this alliance than just the Iraq war. McCain and Lieberman comprise the center in the energy/global warming debate, and Bush lost that center long ago….”…BS

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/23/americas_energy_future?mode=PF