We get the Sierra club magazine and their calender each year.  I had never actually picked it up and looked through it before.  Sierra club hates the Bush administration.  If their facts are acurate, more power to them.

One bit from the January/February 2004 edition. 

Minimum fine for factory farms that violate air-pollution standards, under current federal law : $27,500

Minimum fine under an amnesty deal proposed by the EPA : $3,000

Percent of women of childbearing age with dangerous levels of mercury in their bodies, according to the EPA : 8

Percent increase in mercury (above amount allowed by the Clean Air Act) that Bush’s “Clear Skies” initiative would let power plants emit by 2010 : 520

Pounds of CO2 that the average Hummer emits each year : 24,100

Pounds of CO2 that the average Honda Accord, a midsize car, emits each year : 10,300

Number of awards General Motors, the maker of the Hummer, recieved from the EPA last year for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions : 2

Side note, when watching either VH1 or MTV ( I never really pay attention to which it is ) “It’s Good to be _____” on Arnold Schwarzenegger, they said that he had 16 Hummers.  Governor of California, one of the states with the worst air emission from autos.

Number of times a court has held that the White House must release information on Vice President Cheney’s energy task force : 4

Number of task force documents released by the White House : 0

Why do the right thing when you can do the Bush thing so much easier and cheaper?