Reply #8: But

[BrendaStarr]

Bush was selected by the Big Oil Companies in 1999 as the man who would, as president, boost the cost of gasoline and oil products.

His misadventure in Iraq has actually hurt current world oil supplies.

His administration has not done much to promote alternative energy resources besides pushing for new nuclear energy plants.

Their one announced new program was to promote hyrdrogen power, and especially hydrogen as produced from --wait for it-- oil.

ANWR is as much about the American taxpayer helping to pay for the facilities there as about just allowing oil companies into the region.

The nuclear power promotion also is about getting public funding from you and I for it.

But beyond that, Bush is opening up national parks to oil and gas search and drilling, etc., even though over 90% of current oil licenses are still unused.

This is not a clean business. Whole ranches ahve been inundated by tainted water from nearby wells.

But the beauty of federal lands is that who'll they have to recompense? Bush's minions aren't going to make the poor Oil companies actually pay much for destroying our wild spots and killing wild animals.

BTW, what happened to Carter is this: Instead of supporting the best we could get, the liberal rank and file people sat on our hands, hung around in our liberal groups and griped about him, figuring that if he lost by our doing so, we would certainly have a real liberal win a presidential election in a few years.

Well, we are still waiting.

Get all the info you can. Get out to mixed forums, chats, or even offline (real life) groups. Support our ideas and values. Of course that's only necessary if we want to win sometime. Elections are won months or even years before by the ideas and values that are actively promoted between elections.