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\nDick Cheney with some Saudis, 1990. Source: Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/p>\n
Paul Krugman’s Substack post<\/a> this morning is about Dick Cheney’s “drill baby drill” energy report from 2001. Krugman quotes from the report:<\/p>\n By 2020, non-hydropower renewable energy is expected to account for 2.8 percent of total electricity generation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As of March 2025, 50.8 percent of American electricity came from renewable sources.<\/p>\n Even though George Bush and Dick Cheney were boy scouts compared with Donald Trump and JD Vance, we must never forget that they were wrong about everything<\/em>, and that the ways in which they were wrong did enormous harm in the world while making the super-rich richer and setting the stage for the 2008 financial crisis. In 2016, the Brookings Institution wrote<\/a>: “Looking back, one could argue that this ‘oil escalation’ strategy failed on all counts, exacerbating instability in the Middle East and setting the U.S. and the world back a decade and a half in the fight against climate change.” <\/p>\n It was a huge relief when at last we saw the helicopters carrying Bush and Cheney out of Washington for the last time. I’d have thought that with Bush\/Cheney we had hit rock bottom. Now we know that the global oligarchy was just getting started. And this time they don’t intend to give up their power because of a mere election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dick Cheney with some Saudis, 1990. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Paul Krugman’s Substack post this morning is about Dick Cheney’s “drill baby drill” energy report from 2001. Krugman quotes from the report: By 2020, non-hydropower renewable energy is expected to account for 2.8 percent of total electricity generation. As of March 2025, 50.8 percent of American … Continue reading “Dick Cheney on the trash heap of history”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-issues","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32235"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32245,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235\/revisions\/32245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}