Re:

In a message dated 8/12/05 12:21:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bgreen99@frontiernet.net writes: 
> Why didn't George W. think of this?

Cause he is not on our side--he is on theirs (big business, big oil).  Why do 
you think that in the era of record reported profits for the big oil 
companies he devised, supported and signed a permanent "energy" bill that gives 
away 
Billions of dollars of taxpayers' (i.e., mine and yours) money TO the big oil 
companies?  8^)