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Originally Posted by mudwhistle
How surprising. None of the church of global warming liberals are willing to give Bush credit for a successful environmental policy.
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Successful environmental policy? A modest 1.5% drop in emissions that Bush's own advisor admitted "
the weather had also helped suppress emissions in 2006 by limiting energy consumption". Quite frankly Malk's explanation is the best, the substantial increase in gas prices reduced consumption in that area. Either way neither cause was the result of Bush's environmental policy.
This is an example of Bush's policy:
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Mr Bush said the figures, released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), put the US ahead of its goal, set in 2002, to reduce greenhouse gas intensity by 18 per cent by 2012."
Greenhous gas
intensity goals are a joke. If the economy grew by a modest 2% for each year from 2002 to 2012, emissions could actually grow and they'd still meet their goal.