Bush With a Better Vocabulary

It started out sounding good.

In an executive order signed Monday, Obama required all agencies to do what he wants companies operating power plants, running refineries and making automobiles to do: reduce heat-trapping gases.

Each federal agency will have to set the first targets for reducing climate-altering pollution from its buildings, fleets and workers' commutes.

The agencies will have 90 days to tell the White House how they plan to measure and reduce greenhouse gases from buildings and vehicles by 2020.

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The Senate bill would require refineries, factories and power plants to reduce greenhouse gases by 20 percent by 2020 and roughly 80 percent by mid-century.

  TPM

Apparently just to be able to say that the US is working toward pollution reduction when 180 nations meet in Copenhagen in December for a global warming treaty meeting.

Twenty percent by 2020? At that rate we may not have to concern ourselves with 80% by mid-century. We’ll all have choked to death by then. At the very least, the Republicans will be back in charge, and we'll ditch the idea altogether.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.