Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Damn, I wish I'd said that!

The website Outraged Moderates is outraged, in their post of TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2004, that evil corporate interests essentially wrote  President Bush's Executive Order 13211: "Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use." 
 
Read it.  As I say, I wish I'd written it.  It's an image of a PDF, so it's a pain to exerpt here.
 
There's one place where there's room for mischief in the American Petroleum Institute's recommended exec. order that's been removed from the final order: point "(e)  Techology can help increase supplies, lower costs and improve environmental performance and energy efficiency, meriting both private initiative and government support. "
 
That's a request for a subsidy.  It's gone from the real order.  The similarities are not as striking as Outraged Moderates claims. 
 
Are they claiming that guilt by association with corporations is a definitive criticism?  If that's an example of moderation, Michael Moore's a centrist. 

Update: I should have included their bottom line:
So what practical effect does Executive Order 13211 have?  It creates a bureaucratic roadblock for federal regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration.  Any time their actions could potentially affect the oil industry, these agencies are put on the defensive - forced to justify the very work they were created to do. 

You say that like it's a bad thing.

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