In June 2000, then-presidential candidate George W. Bush told reporters, according to CNN, that Al Gore was responsible for spiking oil prices. Gore, said the GOP man, "writes in a book that he thinks we ought to have higher fuel prices, and now that he's running for president and there's higher fuel prices, he seems to be changing his tune."
Bush's words were part of a steady drumbeat of conservative criticism launched at the Clinton administration, and laced with anti-environmental,...
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