Ponder this: Next year, the Bush administration will phase out the $2,000 tax credit for buying a hybrid vehicle, which gets more than 50 miles per gallon, but will leave in place the $25,000 tax write-off for a business owner purchasing a Hummer, which gets 10 to 12 m.p.g. That’s truly crazy, and that’s truly what the whole Cheney energy policy is.
We don’t even have a fight over how to best conserve energy and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, we have a fight over how much to continue subsidizing wasteful energy practices and maintaining our dependence on foreign oil.