Mr. Bush's Messed Up Energy Policy

There's a nice editorial in the NY Times today written by a nice man, Thomas L. Friedman, about how messed up Mr. Bush's energy policy is.

Bush team is - as others have noted - financing both sides of the war on terrorism. We are financing the U.S. armed forces with our tax dollars, and, through our profligate use of energy, we are generating huge windfall profits for Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan, where the cash is used to insulate the regimes from any pressure to open up their economies, liberate their women or modernize their schools, and where it ends up instead financing madrassas, mosques and militants fundamentally opposed to the progressive, pluralistic agenda America is trying to promote.

Then at the end, he has some nice ideas about how to make it better, like Hummer-free zones, and a $1/gallon gasoline tax and free parking for hybrids.

I think those all sound like nice ideas, except a $1/gallon gasoline tax might hard to get people to like. And since Americans are so in love with cars and loyal to either Ford or Chevy, have a contest to see who cares more about the environment. And maybe the Chevy guys can come up with a new one of those neato mnemonic-device-thingys like Foreign-Oil-Really-Dependent for Ford because that always gets those car guys in a tizzy.