Government(s) also fail to adequately regulate agricultural and gardening chemicals, pesticides and herbicides. Politicians tend to stall or urge 'further study' as an excuse to avoid working or spending money to clean up or attempt to eliminate environmental problems. Pols willingly often leave it up to future administrations, Congresses, and future generations to deal with such problems until they become harder and harder, or even insurmountable to to deal with. For instance, according to the September 2008 edition of the newsletter The Hightower Lowdown, former 2008 Republican Presidential candidate John McCain opposed several bills in the summer of 2008 enabling "renewable energy entrepreneurs" to attain billions in "tax credits", which might have led to advances in alternative energy technology to help wean us off or at least reduce our dependence on foreign oil and other polluting fuels. Perhaps such tax breaks could one-day eliminate (as I like to call it) the 'Infernal Combustion Engine'.
Also, surprise, surprise, the Dubya Bush administration recently denied new companies the ability to build "solar projects" on land he wanted his Big Oil pals to be able to drill for more polluting oil on. Such sun-powered ventures could have saved us a lot of fuel. By the way, the Hightower Lowdown, at www. hightowerlowdown.org is an excellent source of exposing how politicians in general and Bush Republicans in particular are not working in the best interest of as they say We The People. The Washington Spectator, at www.washingtonspectator.com is an another good source of information. (to be cont'd)
[The original version of this essay first appeared in my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays and more recently in my political blog "Rage Against the [Bush] Regime.]
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