by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
A government policy based on desperation to remain on fossil fuels combined with corporate greed and weak lawmakers means more disasters in our future. Extreme sports are known for activities that have a high level of inherent dangers. Cheney and Bush adopted this extreme philosophy into our energy policy in 2001 because the U.S. is "running out of conventional, easily tapped reservoirs of oil and natural gas located on land or in shallow coastal waters." Cheney's solution was to increase drilling in what BP has called the new "energy frontiers": The only solution, it claimed, would be to increase exploitation of unconventional energy reserves -- oil and gas found in deep offshore areas of the Gulf of Mexico, the Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska, and the American Arctic, as well as in complex geological formations such as shale oil and gas.
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