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right of Americans to drive Broncos and other gas-guzzlers that use an exorbitant amount of gas? Cutting fuel use was downright Un-American.

Defying environmental opinion at home and abroad, the Bush administration will tell Americans later this month that conservation is for wimps and that they can go on guzzling the world's energy resources as if there were no tomorrow.

These are the only conclusions that can seriously be drawn from Dick Cheney's speech in Toronto on April 30 in which he said that the solution to the United States' energy problems lies not in reducing demand but in doing everything possible to increase supply.

Surely no issue in the modern world more clearly embodies US exceptionalism than this. Missile defences may be a distinctively American response to missile proliferation, but at least one must admit that the problem of proliferation exists. There is no other nation where the doctrine of unfettered consumption rules unchallenged.

"Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy," Cheney said in Toronto. "The aim here is efficiency, not austerity." The idea of getting "more from less" was 1970s thinking.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/10/dickcheney.martinkettle