Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006 | 7:13 a.m.
It is well known that for five months in 2001 Vice President Dick Cheney met with top executives from oil and other fossil-fuel companies. He was preparing the groundwork for a national energy policy, which Congress passed last summer.
The policy is weighted heavily toward the usual energy suspects - oil, gas, dirty coal and nuclear power.
It is too bad that Cheney was then under the direction of the old President Bush.
The new President Bush, if his words of late are to be believed, would have insisted upon a policy devoted much more to green energy sources.
"Managing peak electricity loads with alternative sources of energy makes a lot of sense," Bush said Tuesday in a town-hall style meeting at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.
Although dreams of more nuclear energy crept into his talk, he dwelled for the most part on weaning America from fossil fuels and leading it toward the day when hybrid and hydrogen-powered cars rule the roads, and energy from vegetable matter, animal waste and solar and wind power is dominant in homes and businesses.
Who was that man in Golden, and what have they done with the real President Bush?
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