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There's also some hypocrisy in Bush's rhetoric. He spent last week complaining that for seven years, Clinton and Gore have had "no comprehensive energy policy," and yet it is Bush who has no long-term plan. The Bush website offers detailed positions on 23 different issues, from abstinence to taxes, but not a word on oil or gas. (Bush has scheduled a speech on the subject for this week...
...timing of Richardson's announcement was geared not only to domestic politics but also to global energy politics. This week the OPEC heads of state are scheduled to meet in Caracas, Venezuela--their first such meeting in 25 years. Analysts don't expect much serious policy discussion at the meeting, but the Administration wanted its plan in play beforehand--with quiet support lined up from the Saudis as a way to help mute criticism from such OPEC members as Iran. The move is bound to displease those members who want and need high oil prices--countries such as Indonesia that...
Most experts say tapping the reserve is likely to drive down the price of oil--which is determined as much by speculation as by supply--in the short term. (By the end of last week the price had already dropped to $32.65 per bbl., from $37.20 last Wednesday.) The tax credits should help lower the price of heating oil this winter, and the low-income funds will ease the burden on some families...
Bush's budget plan does not include a detailed energy policy. Last week he said he would try to persuade OPEC to increase the supply of oil by reminding "the folks over there who sent the troops on the ground." He proposes to increase oil exploration at home, expand refining capacity and drill in the Arctic refuge...
...years people have accused Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori of running a brutal and authoritarian government right out of a dictator's textbook. But last week Fujimori's regime morphed from a monolith into a weird, militarized soap opera, and it seemed no one, perhaps not even Fujimori, understood how the plot was unfolding. Was the President still running the show? Was he resigning, as he suddenly promised? Would he, as he declared, really clean up the thuggish security apparatus that had done so much to blacken his administration's name? Would the nation's powerful military back him or revolt...