Abstract
LATE LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT George W. Bush released his Administration's much-discussed national energy plan and formally threw open the starting gate for a national debate over future U.S. energy needs. The President and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham made the announcement during a tour of midwestern advanced energy facilities. The plan, drawn up by a task force led by Vice President Richard B. Cheney and staffed by former aides to Sen. Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska), was crafted during a four-month series of meetings held out of public sight and with heavy reliance on the input of industrial America. The report enjoys support from U.S. businesses, but its heavy emphasis on exploration and production of oil, gas, and coal, as well as greater reliance on nuclear power, has angered environmentalists. Included among the 105 report recommendations are the following: begin drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, ease siting of new electrical transmission lines, re-examine policies that ...
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