Thursday, April 20, 2006
Hillary Clinton: Bush Enviro Policy Caused Katrina
2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is celebrating Earth Day by unveiling her new energy plan and by blaming President Bush's environmental policies for Hurricane Katrina.
In a fundraising email sent out to donors on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton alleges:
"In the last five years, the Bush administration has left no major environmental law untouched in their push to deregulate, undermining or rolling back decades of regulations put in place to protect our heath.
"The results are all around us," she says, citing "more greenhouse gases, global warming, rising seas, more violent storms like Katrina."
She also blames Bush for "the endless demand for higher-priced oil [that] is depleting world supplies [and] weakening our economic security."
Mrs. Clinton proposes the creation of a brand new energy bureaucracy, telling her supporters: "We have the National Institutes of Health; why don't we have a National Institute of Energy?"
Decrying what she called the "short-sighted, oil company-dependent energy policy that values drilling anywhere for oil more than it values protecting our planet, Mrs. Clinton said her energy plan would compel the big oil companies to invest "their historic profits . . . into a strategic energy fund to develop alternative energy forms."
The former first lady proposed granting consumer tax breaks to buy fuel-efficient vehicles, extending incentives to produce electricity from renewable sources, and making bio fuels more widely available.
For the long term Mrs. Clinton says she supports research into wind farms, solar energy cells, ethanol, and biodiesel."
The former first lady urges that the time for action is now, warning: "the threats to our environment and way of life are real and growing."
2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is celebrating Earth Day by unveiling her new energy plan and by blaming President Bush's environmental policies for Hurricane Katrina.
In a fundraising email sent out to donors on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton alleges:
"In the last five years, the Bush administration has left no major environmental law untouched in their push to deregulate, undermining or rolling back decades of regulations put in place to protect our heath.
"The results are all around us," she says, citing "more greenhouse gases, global warming, rising seas, more violent storms like Katrina."
She also blames Bush for "the endless demand for higher-priced oil [that] is depleting world supplies [and] weakening our economic security."
Mrs. Clinton proposes the creation of a brand new energy bureaucracy, telling her supporters: "We have the National Institutes of Health; why don't we have a National Institute of Energy?"
Decrying what she called the "short-sighted, oil company-dependent energy policy that values drilling anywhere for oil more than it values protecting our planet, Mrs. Clinton said her energy plan would compel the big oil companies to invest "their historic profits . . . into a strategic energy fund to develop alternative energy forms."
The former first lady proposed granting consumer tax breaks to buy fuel-efficient vehicles, extending incentives to produce electricity from renewable sources, and making bio fuels more widely available.
For the long term Mrs. Clinton says she supports research into wind farms, solar energy cells, ethanol, and biodiesel."
The former first lady urges that the time for action is now, warning: "the threats to our environment and way of life are real and growing."
