New US energy bill leaves no one happy

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When US President George W. Bush arrived for his first term in the White House the lights were going out in California. The former Texas oilman, advised by his number two, a Texas oil industry veteran, formed an interim administration including an energy task force that included top people from the oil, gas and utility industries in Texas and beyond.
The aim of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney was to hear from those people -- including Earl Nye of TXU, the lone star state's utility provider, and Kenneth Lay of Enron -- about an overhaul of energy legislation and regulation in the US.

Then the Sept. 11 attacks, the Iraq war and the collapse of Enron intervened. Cheney, however, pressed ahead, producing a report by his energy task force in 2002, and last week the US congress passed a 1,725-page bill addressing every conceivable aspect of energy supply and demand management.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/08/03/2003266248

[Psephos]

1. Isn't that supposedly the test of a fair negotiation?

Hmm, I may have to revise my supply of cliches to make an exception for this festival of pork.

Peace.