"America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortage since the oil embargoes of the 1970s," declares the grand new energy policy unveiled by George Bush this week. That is surely an exaggeration, but it is one with which many Americans probably sympathise. Thanks to forecasts of $3-a-gallon gasoline and more blackouts for California (and maybe even New York) in coming weeks, energy has shot up to the top of the list of voter concerns. Increasingly, this looks like being a summer of simmering discontent.
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