Robert Bryce - Bush is wasting his energy and ours on old ideas

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/
la-oe-bryce13nov13,1,3718599.story

Why is the president insisting on 1970s policies -- which stress drilling and nuclear plants -- when decreasing oil supplies worldwide should be pointing us in a new direction?

By Robert Bryce, Los Angeles Times

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The simple truth is that, despite the energy policy plan put forward by Dick Cheney's task force in 2001 and the pending energy bill in Congress, the U.S. doesn't have a viable long-term energy policy. It never has.

The new energy bill offers more of the same misguided policies that have driven the U.S. for the last 40 years. The measure, likely to be voted on by the House of Representatives shortly, provides $16 billion in new incentives to increase oil drilling and build new nuclear power plants. It's the same thinking that was in place in 1973, when the first oil shocks rocked the U.S. economy. The U.S. still has energy myopia — a belief that we can produce ever-increasing amounts of energy to fill our gas tanks.

It can't be done.