Breaking Irony: Floods Worsen Disastrous Bush Renewable Energy Policy
The Bush Regime is famous for ignoring facts, creating fake ones and using those to justify their decisions. There was lots of evidence showing that ethanol is not a good answer to America’s renewable energy troubles: high gas prices, dwindling supplies, air pollution and greenhouse gases. The only thing it was sure to do was exactly what the Regime has fought during its endlessly destructive reign: make wealthy, government subsidized farmers even more government subsidized and wealthier. But the irony doesn’t end there.
Bush’s ethanol policy has created a number of different problems without solving the one it was supposed to. Corn prices shot up causing food prices to do the same, corn was taken out of the food supply to make fuel causing food shortages, and it’s making our air dirtier while doing nothing to ease gas prices or shortages. Now, with floods drowning much of the midwestern corn crop, it will make matters even worse.
If we could only get our president and his minions to just stop doing anything it will be easier to reverse the damage. But like Iowa’s floodwaters, it’s going to take a long time. And we won’t see all the damage until Bush, Cheney and these masters of disaster have receded entirely.