'Bungled' Energy Policies Not Losing Steam

17 July 2003 - 11:00am

A look at U.S. energy policies over the last thirty years reveals a trail of broken promises to promote alternative energy practices.

Thirty years and many energy bills later, "Congress has helped position Americans so they may be closer to an energy crisis than at any time since the oil shocks of the 1970s. And this time, the U.S. is finally beginning to run out of domestic oil and easily recoverable natural gas." This Time magazine special report on the new energy crisis chronicles the "case of short attention span among American politicians when it comes to energy policy."

Source: Time, July 21, 2003
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