Oooooh the Bush administration

I hate to make environmental issues political, but this just angers me:
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Jerry Brown, attorney general for California, is suing the federal government on environmental issues.

On Tuesday, May 22nd, Brown will ask the EPA to allow California and 12 other states to impose their own stricter standards on tailpipe emissions—or else, he says, California will sue the federal government. Those of you might remember recently the Supreme Court just ruled that the EPA's laundry list of excuses is not enough to say that they cannot impose restrictions on carbon emissions from cars/factories.

Brown also has sued the Bush administration for its standard on gas mileage for SUVs. He says it's "pathetic." I wondered what he really meant by that, so I read a little more and found out that the Bush administration, in response to the recent environmental furor, have decided to increase the standard of SUV mileage by 1 mpg. No. I didn't miss any numbers. 1. Uno. One. Wow, that's almost just as bad as all the automakers claiming they have high efficiency vehicles when their cars only get less than 30 miles to the gallon. High efficiency!?!? My 1992 Honda Accord got 26 mpg, and now 15 years later it's still as efficient as brand new, "high efficiency" vehicles??? Give me a break.

Brown sums up the reason why the administration hasn't done anything:
"Why didn't he [raise fuel-economy standards] by 10 miles a gallon, or why didn't he say it five years ago? No, Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney are oil people. They think like oil people, they act like oil people. Oil people want to sell oil. They love the high price, which is caused by the scarcity, which is caused by the excess consumption. If cars in America were dramatically more efficient, the price of oil would be lower today. That's the facts. I mean we have an oil administration. That's in part why they went into Iraq; it's all tied together. It's profit; it's real money to real people. And that's what's at stake here."

Meanwhile, gas prices might break records this summer...