The Independent reports on the latest Bush administration efforts to sabotage an international agreement to combat global warming. Yes, this is the same administration that promised to offer some sort of alternative to the Kyoto Protocol. But that was a long time ago. And let’s face it, this kind of process will get little, if any, coverage on TV news.
But wait, this gets even better (emphasis added):
The Americans also objected to mentions of the need to tackle global warming as opposed to adapting to it, and backed an extraordinary demand from Saudi Arabia that oil-producing states should receive billions of dollars in compensation from the rest of the world if they burned less oil.
Huh? We should pay countries for not using as much of their oil?
I’m not sure if the administration really favors this proposal, or if it’s simply trying to insert a poison pill into the process. But either way it’s evident that the energy industry is priority one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.