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The creeping fear of unaffordable power has President George W. Bush looking for a backup policy generator as he prepares to unveil an energy program this week that is very fossil-fuel friendly--and simpatico with his and Vice President Dick Cheney's long ties to Big Oil. Bush says...
He might have been talking about his own White House. The much-vaunted discipline and collegiality that have defined the Bush operation since Inauguration Day have been breaking down in recent weeks over the marketing of the energy plan. The trouble started in Toronto at the end of April, when...
Mary Matalin, a senior adviser to Cheney, brought in an outside public relations consultant, Jim Sims, to help with the plan's rollout. But in a conference call with administration allies last Tuesday, Matalin railed against what she called the press's "ignorance about energy" and the unfair coverage of...
The press, officials contend, just doesn't realize that conservation alone cannot solve the problem. Every new policy position requires educating the press as well as the public, but the White House posture on the energy plan is that this task will be harder than ever. Their strategy? Repeat, repeat...
Conservation? "A personal virtue," Cheney near-scoffed in a recent preview of his task force's opus. Efficiency? Cheney's report tosses $4 billion in tax credits for gas-pinching hybrid cars, and a handful of other initiatives meant to keep America getting more out of the power it has...