I don’t know if anyone has thought of this yet, but I at least wanted to work it through in my mind before the thought got lost again…
A month or so ago after Katrina, Bush repealed one of the clean gas requirements to open up the market to some of the gas without the additives or whatever to help it burn cleaner. Now that gas prices are on the fall again I havent heard anyone talking about re-enacting these requirements. Is this another instance of Bush thumbing his nose at environmentalists by using a “national crisis” (jesus soccer moms if you would stop driving 100mi/day in your SUV it wouldn’t be a national crisis now would it?!) to move further away from the ideals of the Kyoto Protocol. Of all the countries of the world the US is one of only 2 nations to sign but decline ratifying the document.
Maybe I’m just being paranoid and rambling, but I think something smells fishy about the situation anyway.
quite an interesting theory.