I have previously criticized this Administration and the prior Republican Administration for failing to have a National Energy Policy. But in addition to not having an energy policy, the Clinton-Gore administration has made matters even worse by issuing new environmental regulations without any regard for their effect on the price or supply of fuel.
I hope it does not come to this. I hope the EPA will finalize a rule which ensures that we will not have wide scale shortages and price spikes, but I fear they are rushing to get anything finalized and are not spending the necessary time to craft good public policy. If I am forced to use the Congressional Review Act it will not be because I am opposed to Clean Air or cleaner emissions. It will be because, unlike the gasoline sulfur rule, the EPA is finalizing a half finished rule which does not take into account all of the public policy issues in regulating our fuel supply.