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Anti-Regulation Cheney Aide is Front Runner for Energy Dept. Post
F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney with a long history of promoting anti-environmental regulation policy, is a top choice for a post at the Energy Department, the Washington Post reports today.
Hutto, who is being considered for the position of assistant secretary for policy and international affairs, has been a contact within the administration for the oil and gas industry on energy and environmental issues.
The administration's controversial decision to delay action on regulating greenhouse gas emissions was shaped in part by Hutto.
From a July 11 article in the Washington Post:
Hutto, a former Cato Institute intern and Bush campaign volunteer during the Florida vote recount in 2000, whose grandfather patented at least seven piston inventions for the Ford Motor Company, has "an anti-regulatory philosophy and concern about what regulation means for the American way of life. He would talk, for example, about not wanting greenhouse gas controls to do away with the large American automobile," said the meeting participant.
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hope he enjoys his new job for the entire 6 months remaining until the next administration.
August 19, 2008 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
This guy will probably do more damage in six months than if you left the position vacant or hired a poodle.
August 19, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
F Chase Hutto, III's first name is "Frank."
Why are so many of these guys afraid of their first names?
I Lewis "Scooter" Libby
H Boyden Gray
G Gordon Liddy
August 19, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I heard that the Vice President's real first name is Alfonzo, but he dropped the first initial entirely.
So his real name is...
A Dick Cheney
-- ARG
August 19, 2008 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Suprising that the Chimp-in-Carge and the Penguin did not recess appoint the bastard.
August 19, 2008 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Slightly off-topic, but I've long thought someone should look at the historical trends in gas prices relative to presidential elections. I distinctly recall from the last 3, at least, of a significant and rapid run up in prices approximately 6 to 9 months before each election and then a slower paced but unmistakable decline during the 2 to 3 months before election day.
I would suggest that this trend indicates a two-fold and purposeful strategy by Big Oil and their beneficiaries, the GOP. First, the huge profits get funnelled through any and all means necessary to the candidates of choice, and second, the seething anger about energy costs, a perennial sentiment that never seems to really work out to the advantage of the DEMs, is replaced by a sigh of relief, despite the fact that prices are still higher than at the beginning of the strategy's implementation.
This election season, Exhibit A for me is the fact that oil prices, which are always said to be most volatile during world crises, didn't jump during the Georgia invasion...in fact, they've consistently trended downward, in keeping with the above script...even though the future of Georgia's pipeline to the West is now out of the West's control. And yet, a pissant tropical storm like Fay is blamed for a sudden (but again, unsubstantiated) spike in oil prices.
Of course, this is a tough concept to prove, but just like the scam during the California energy crisis to undo Grey Davis, I think it's a very plausible.
August 20, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
...the regime continuing unimpeached.
August 20, 2008 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink