Buffalo Boy's Blog

For those of you who feel that the Bush administration is not corrupt and is not in bed with big oil look again. I read the following article and can't believe the willingness of this administration to ignore the importance of energy efficiency and the environment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_re_us/california_greenhouse_gases

California became the first state to officially sue the EPA because the EPA refused to grant California permission to set state mandated emissions. California's new fuel efficency/emissions standard would be 36.8 miles per gallon and enforces that standard earlier than the Bush Administrations 35 MPG by 2020.

What does the Bush administration care if individual states want to exceed the fuel standards that are proposed federally? Stephen L. Johnson who is the head of the EPA as appointed by Mr. Bush was quoted in the article with this lovely bit:

"Johnson said the federal government was moving forward with a national solution and dismissed California's arguments that it faced unique threats from climate change."

The Governator disagreed with this assessment from Mr. Johnson.

"(EPA officials) are ignoring the will of millions of people who want their government to take action in the fight against global warming," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "That's why, at the very first legal opportunity, we're suing to reverse the U.S. EPA's wrong decision."

So lets get this straight, the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, is denying states the right to protect the environment by enacting stricter fuel standards thereby decreasing pollution above and beyond what the feds require. The EPA should have no problem with this. Now if states are not meeting or don't want to meet the nationally set fuel standard, then the EPA should have a problem. This is completely the opposite. We have 19 states in this country willing to exceed those standards set by the Bush Administration and the EPA.  

The trouble is, the puppets that the Bush/Cheney administration put in to run these agencies are paid off by big oil and auto manufacturers. Higher fuel standards mean less oil is used and more work for American auto manufacturers to meet those standards. 

Well piss on em. The killer is, these states that are suing will probably lose because Bush has already placed half the supreme court justices on the US Supreme court which demonstrates just as much loyalty to Bush as his other appointees.  Its sickening and demonstrates another reason why the Bush administration should be impeached for its neglect of the American people and the environment with in which we live.