Climate Change Meets Kitchen Table as Issue Gets Personal

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. He's way down on the blame-o-scope on this one.

Everybody who gets rich off fossil fuels is up there ahead of him. His part of the blame is limited to things like the 'all of the above' approach to energy policy, but that's mostly just words. Congress controls the purse strings, and he knows that if he WERE to simply come out against fossil fuels, Congress would override him and make him look weaker. So all he's got to be blamed for is usual political expediency, like most every politician around him.

Which is much less blame to take than the coal, gas and oil companies with their constant propaganda commercials about how they 'create jobs' and drill 'safe, clean gas', all the while we've got pollution in the water tables, spills everywhere and a third of the gas is being 'burnt off' before it even gets to consumers.