Cardigan Sweater Doesn’t Fit Bush

Bush finally woke up to the energy crisis.

Too bad he slept through it for the first four and a half years of his Presidency.

He and Dick Cheney pooh-poohed the idea of energy conservation even as Cheney issued a report in the spring of 2001 that showed we’d be even more dependent on Middle East oil by the year 2020 than we are now.

Cheney derided conservation as a "sign of personal virtue," adding that "it cannot be the basis of a sound energy policy."

At the time, Cheney thought invading Iraq was the basis of a sound energy policy.

At the time, he thought forcing other oil producing nations to favor ExxonMobil was the basis of a sound energy policy.

Still does.