No Gain, Much Pain

Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a co-sponsor of the national energy bill President Bush signed this week in Albuquerque, was probably right when he said the legislation was the best a bitterly partisan Congress could squeeze out of itself right now. And what a disappointment it is.

In troubled times, when an oil crisis looms and when friends can’t differ with each other about politics without getting hysterical, the nation’s economy has become a sitting duck for any natural or malicious disruption of the flow of oil.
The Albuquerque Tribune